Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

What's under the Extra Hot Great tree today in this winter-holiday all-Canon episode? First up is Supernatural's fifth-season "Changing Channels," a TV trope send-up with a couple of Buntnip elements the submitter hopes will guarantee a vote from Sarah, followed by a very courageous anime submission in the form of Gurren Lagann S01.E08. And once we've dispensed with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in-jokes and AT-AT tiki walkers, it's time to contemplate the $165 budget of the pilot of NightMan, a show that couldn't even afford a fan and seems like it's maybe actually a pest-control porno. O Little Town Of *****, N*, there's a message for one of your residents in this very merry episode of Extra Hot Great. TOPICS The Canon: 👿 Supernatural S05.E08: "Changing Channels" The Canon: 🇯🇵 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann S01.E08: "Later Buddy" The Canon: 🎷 Nightman S01.E01: "Episode 1" NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 184 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌉 The NightMan credits sequence you can't live without

Heading into Christmas, we decided to do our most positive episode ever: offering up our "Best"s in categories selected by listeners like you! What's the best show to watch when you're sick? What's the best fake website from a TV show? What's the best thing about living in The Good Place? We answer these questions and many more in our first Besties-sode! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏆 The Extra Hot Great Besties NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 183 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We couldn't decide which was the week's most important TV premiere -- the second season of Netflix's QEII drama The Crown, or Syfy's dark Chris Meloni comedy Happy! -- so we decided to cover both! Joining us from Go Fug Yourself are our official purveyors of Epic Old School Recaps of The Crown, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan! Around The Dial takes us to quick mentions of Married At First Sight: Jamie & Doug Plus One, Encore!, The Mindy Project, Vanderpump Rules, American Vandal, and Norsemen. We consider inducting into The Canon Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's fourth episode, "I'm Going On A Date With Josh's Friend!" Then after discussing the week's Winner and Loser, we close things up with 2017's star-crossed final Game Time. Gather your corgis and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 👑 The Crown Lead Topic: 😁 Happy! Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Doug & Jamie Plus One Around The Dial: 🎭 Encore! Around The Dial: 🩺 The Mindy Project Around The Dial: 🍸 Vanderpump Rules Around The Dial: 📹 American Vandal Around The Dial: 🚣‍♂️ Norsemen The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Today Winner & Loser: 👎 Award nominee snubs Game Time: 🧠 Star-Crossed NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 182 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Go Fug Yourself on Twitter 👙 GoFugYourself.com

Jim Durr joined us for the first time (on this pod, anyway) to talk about Knightfall, the new medieval drama on History, and while all its trebuchets, extreme helmet cams, and campy popes can't quite_make us care whether they ever track down that crusty old Grail. We went Around The Dial with _GBBO, Netflix's weird but compelling Stranger Things: Deutschland offering Dark, and the best (and family-friendliest) of recent stand-up specials before Jim sent us back to the late '90s with a Futurama Canon submission. Dave treated us to a very little The Littlest Hobo audio recap, Tara faced off against the Pickle & Peanut theme song (...for the last time???), and Dr. Phil won while just about every other man in television lost. And finally, Game Time got meta as the panel tried to guess the TV-show-based videogames. There is no Benson videogame. Go write your reps about that, and on your way to the mailbox, have a listen to the latest all-new regulation Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jim Durr TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚔️ Knightfall Around The Dial: 🤣 Recent standup specials from Tiffany Haddish, Brian Regan, and Michelle Wolf Around The Dial: 🍰 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Dark None: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo The Littlest "Littlest Hobo" Recap for S01.E01: "Smoke" The Canon: 🚀 Futurama Winner & Loser: 👍 Dr. Phil Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw Winner & Loser: 👎 Good grief, more TV men accused of sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 Super Nintendo Chalmers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 181 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jim Durr on Twitter

Daniel MacEachern visits from the Two Spotted Dicks podcast to join Dave and Tara for a special winter-themed all-TV forcening episode of the Extra Hot Great podcast! Whose picks are cool and who would have preferred being left on an ice floe? Listen and find out! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚡️ The Flash S03.E17: "Duet" Lead Topic: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo S01.E16: "Snapshot" Lead Topic: 👑 Royal Pains S04.E15/16: "Off-Season Greetings" NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 180 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

Kevin O'Keeffe and Kim Reed join us as we head into America's favourite eating holiday by gorging on more than two dozen FMK matchups! It's gonna rock you! GUESTS 👤 Kevin O'Keeffe 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 F/M/K NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 179 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📸 Kevin O'Keeffe on Instagram 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

Two ex-contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race see their web series graduate to a half-hour weekly comedy show on Viceland, so Mark Blankenship is here to help us spill the tea on The Trixie & Katya Show! Around The Dial spins to the series finale of The Mindy Project, Season 2 of The Girlfriend Experience, ABC's new high school musical special Encore, and Rolling Stones: Stories From The Edge, before Tara gets another chance to master the Pickle And Peanut theme song. Mark presents Insecure's "Hella LA" for The Canon, and then after calling out the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that'll have you whipping off your bra and/or breathing fire. Tease up your wig and join us! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 💄 The Trixie & Katya Show Around The Dial: 🩺 The Mindy Project Around The Dial: 👜 The Girlfriend Experience Around The Dial: 🎭 Encore! Around The Dial: 🎸 Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge Around The Dial: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut The "Pickle & Peanut" Challenge The Canon: 🌴 Insecure Winner & Loser: 👍 Dynasty (2017) Winner & Loser: 👎 Yet more TV men accused to sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 It's Only Tits And Dragons NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 178 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

Frankie Shaw's new Showtime sitcom about a single mom in South Boston shows some promise, but did it make most of the panel -- including guest Stephanie Early Green -- too uncomfortable too continue? We discussed that, cute TV toddlers, and protagonists who don't learn before going around the dial with Rosehaven, 90 Day Fiance, a Netflix doc on Joan Didion, and The Pickle & Peanut Challenge. Tara took us to Detroiters with her Canon presentation, and Jordan Peele was this week's Winner, while our banned-men Loser list got rull long. Who was the odd man out in this week's Game Time? Listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great (while doing your Kegels?) and find out. GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Tiny Triumph: 💰 Old-School Recaps campaign more than 40% funded Lead Topic: 🇮🇪 SMILF Around The Dial: 🌹 Rosehaven Around The Dial: 💍 90 Day Fiancé Around The Dial: ✈️ Before The 90 Days Around The Dial: ✍️ Around The Dial: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut The "Pickle & Peanut" Challenge The Canon: 💼 Detroiters Winner & Loser: 👍 Jordan Peele Winner & Loser: 👎 More TV men accused of sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 Odd Man Out NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 177 page on ExtraHotGreat.com https://twitter.com/eteffi/ Stephanie Green on Twitter

As yet another Margaret Atwood novel gets a TV adaptation, Allison Lowe Huff and Extra Hot Game Time impresario Rob Hartmann join us to talk about Alias Grace, Netflix/CBC's period prison drama. Tara and Allison discuss whether Mike Rinder has become The Pierce of Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath, or if Remini and her nails are already an unstoppable team without him. Around The Dial takes us to At Home With Amy Sedaris, Shetland, Stranger Things, and Pickle And Peanut(and to a mea culpa regarding recent episodes of Little House On The Podcast). We ponder whether "Missing Time" is a Nonac-worthy episode of Miami Vice, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that knows its worth. Curl up in your coziest cell and join us! GUESTS 👤 Rob Hartmann 👤 Allison Lowe Huff TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧹 Alias Grace None: ⚓️ Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath Mike Rinder, The Pierce Around The Dial: 🧶 At Home With Amy Sedaris Around The Dial: 🐴 Shetland Around The Dial: 🧇 Stranger Things Around The Dial: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut The Nonac: 🦩 Miami Vice Winner & Loser: 👍 Pose Queer representation Winner & Loser: 👍 Andi Mack Queer representation Winner & Loser: 👎 Men being accused of sexual misconduct: Mark Halperin; Kevin Spacey Game Time: 🧠 Network Worth NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 176 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Rob Hartmann on Twitter 🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter

Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake is back -- and so is our esteemedest producer, David T. Cole -- to discuss Too Funny To Fail, Hulu's documentary on the much-anticipated The Dana Carvey Show and its ignominious end. After a Robin Williams-ectomy was proposed, Dave got the blues in his I Am Not A Crackpot segment, and then we went around the dial with Mom, American Vandal, Chance, and The Deuce. Tara hoped an episode of Better Things would be better enough for the Canon, Kardashians and Benson fans were winners and losers, and there was once a man from Nantucket...who wrote Game Time. Sort of. Alphabetize those network notes: it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤣 Too Funny To Fail Lead Topic: 🍼 The Dana Carvey Show I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Don't let all your lighting look blue Around The Dial: 🍻 Mom Around The Dial: 🎨 American Vandal Around The Dial: 🌉 Chance Around The Dial: 🫦 The Deuce The Canon: 🌴 Better Things Winner & Loser: 👍 The Kardashians Winner & Loser: 👎 Showbiz men getting outed for sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 TV Limericks NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 175 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter