Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Now that Playing House's second season is well underway, we've invited Nick Rheinwald-Jones, one of its staunchest fans, to join us for a discussion of how things are going so far. Tara shares a Playing House-based Tiny Triumph, after which it's time for Liv to report on the latest Face Off, and for Tara to share the latest insanity from Under The Dome. Around The Dial stops at Regular Show, Show Me A Hero, Drunk History, Project Greenlight, Hannibal, and the apparently infinite galaxy of Star Wars toy ads from the '80s. Nick makes a case for the induction of the Veronica Mars episode "Spit And Eggs" into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we dive into Rob Hartmann's latest diabolical Game Time. Load up some gingi and new-news and enjoy! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏠 Playing House Tiny Triumph: 🐦 Retweeted by Jessica St. Clair Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome Around The Dial: 🦝 Regular Show Around The Dial: 🦸🏻‍♂️ Show Me A Hero Around The Dial: 🥴 Drunk History Around The Dial: 🚥 Project Greenlight Around The Dial: 🍽 Hannibal Around The Dial: 🚀 Good Gravy, Yet More Star Wars Ads The Canon: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars S03.E09: Spit & Eggs Winner & Loser: 👍 Jorge Ramos Winner & Loser: 👎 Curt Schilling Game Time: 🔢 4-5-6-7 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 085 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Omar's back to talk about AMC's Walking Dead prequel, Fear The Walking Dead. Does it need more process and less teen angst? What's with the stupid driving? And will we keep watching? Dave explained a few EHG facts before Liv learned subtlety on the Face Off report and Tara made us Domer, and we went around the dial with documentary spoofs, vintage reality shows, dysfunctional comedy joints, and crappy Star Wars gifts. Will Dave un-Pierce Gene of Bob's Burgers? Is Sarah's X-Files Canon submission out of this world? Did Sorkin win or lose this week? And who used his or her brain best -- i.e., not eating them -- in Game Time? It's an apocalyptically good time on this week's all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧟 Fear The Walking Dead Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome Around The Dial: 🎥 Documentary Now! Around The Dial: 🤷🏾‍♂️ Why? With Hannibal Buress Around The Dial: 🚥 Project Greenlight Around The Dial: 🚀 Yet More Star Wars Ads The Canon: 👽 The X-Files S06.E19: The Unnatural Winner & Loser: 👍 Aaron Sorkin Winner & Loser: 👎 90210 Stars Game Time: 🤔 Is This Anything? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 084 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

As Humans (heard of 'em) wraps its first season, John Ramos joins us to talk about the titular humans and their synth friends...and foes! Liv tells us all about a wedding-themed episode of Face Off, and Tara takes us through the latest idiocy making us all Domer on Under The Dome. Around The Dial stops at Last Week Tonight, Show Me A Hero, Rectify, Mr. Robot, and another confounding Star Wars toy ad. Dave makes a singular case for the submission to The Canon of the G.I. Joe episode "The Viper Is Coming," and no, that is not a very long typo. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a Game Time that takes us through all of life's biggest events! Top up your synth fluid and join us! GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 👂 Humans Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome Around The Dial: 🦸🏻‍♂️ Show Me A Hero Around The Dial: ⬛️ Rectify Around The Dial: 🤖 Mr. Robot Around The Dial: 🚀 More Star Wars Ads The Canon: 🪖 G.I. Joe S01.E29: The Viper Is Coming Winner & Loser: 👍 Michael Moriarty and DJ Jazzy Jeff Winner & Loser: 👎 David Simon Game Time: 😍 First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes Game Time With The Baby Carriage NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 083 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan joined the gang this week to take a closer look at Project Runway as it returns for a fourteenth season. Liv trolled us in her Face Off report, Tara recharged the amethysts Under The Dome with rage, and we went around the dial with Jon Stewart, Cait Jenner, Becoming Us, Nic Pizzicato Five, the resurgence of Big Brother, and the lies Saturday-morning ads tell -- before Heather wigged us out with a Melrose Place Canon submission. We declared a winner and loser, then scaled a traditional Egyptian burial structure for 25 Dave points in this week's Game Time. Work wives, dead wives, crying and cutting: we've got it all (plus a ton of TV Republicans for some reason?) on an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Lead Topic: 👗 Project Runway Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome Around The Dial: 📆 The Daily Show Around The Dial: 🙋🏻‍♀️ I Am Cait Around The Dial: 👏 Becoming Us Around The Dial: ⭕️ True Detective Around The Dial: 👁 Big Brother Around The Dial: ⚔️ Return Of The Jedi The Canon: 🏠 Melrose Place S02.E28: The Bitch Is Back Winner & Loser: 👍 Republicans Winner & Loser: 👎 David Fincher Game Time: 🔺 The New 25 Dave Point Pharaoh’s Tomb NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 082 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Since summer TV is no longer dumber TV, we've invited Mark Blankenship back to the Blankenship Chair to join us for a discussion of our most winning series picks! Niece Liv -- now seven years old -- returns to bring us the scoop on Face Off's Season 9 premiere, and then Tara tells us the latest ways Under The Dome has made us Domer. Mark makes a case for the induction of Downton Abbey's S05E03 to the Nonac -- the reverse Canon -- and then after identifying the Winner & Loser Of The Week, we finish up with a very critical Game Time. Turn up the AC and enjoy! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 😎 Summer TV Picks Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome The Nonac: 🎩 Downton Abbey S05.E03: Episode 3 Winner & Loser: 👍 Nicholas Brendon Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris Harrison Game Time: 🤦‍♂️ You’re The Worst NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 081 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Our esteemed colleague Kim helped the gang poke holes in Catfish this week, as we wondered whether Max has gotten better...or everything else around him on the show has gotten worse. We got psyched about the revivals of Wet Hot American Summer and America's Best Dance Crew, took a buggy down memory lane with Little House, and got on board with Humans ("...heard of 'em") before bringing Zoo Under The Dome and trying to bring a Friday Night Lights episode to the Canon championship. Caitlyn Jenner won another event, Jon Stewart's imitation game is a loser, and we passed the Hot Potato in a brand-new Game Time. Should you arrange to meet an all-new Extra Hot Great in a park? Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐟 Catfish Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome Around The Dial: 🦁 Zoo Around The Dial: 🕺 America's Best Dance Crew Around The Dial: 🤩 The Most Awesome Thing Around The Dial: 👂 Humans Around The Dial: 🦷 The War On Teeth I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 How To Answer A Phone The Canon: 🏈 Friday Night Lights S01.E20: Mud Bowl Winner & Loser: 👍 Caitlyn Jenner Winner & Loser: 👎 Jon Stewart Game Time: 🥔 Blank Stuffed Hot Potato NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 080 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

The vampire zombies of The Strain are back on FX, and Omar Gallaga, our resident expert, is back to tell us all about the early days of the second season. From there, we go on to check on the latest events making us Domer, and flip Around The Dial with stops at In Search Of..., The Astronaut Wives Club, the Netflix documentary Tig, and the Spike miniseries Tut. Omar makes a case for the induction of The Walking Dead episode "The Grove" into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we finish up with a Game Time that's the OPPOSITE of boring and tedious! Grab a cup of worms and enjoy! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦠 The Strain Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome Around The Dial: 🔦 In Search Of Around The Dial: 👨‍🚀 The Astronaut Wives Club Around The Dial: 🐯 Tig Around The Dial: 👑 Tut The Canon: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead Winner & Loser: 👍 Colonists Winner & Loser: 👎 Aquarius & Hannibal Game Time: 🌓 Opposites NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 079 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Eve Batey makes it a threequel when she returns to discuss -- and diagnose -- Scream with the rest of the gang. We met the newest EHG-themed shirts, despaired of Under The Dome, and recommended Bosch, UnREAL, and British reality-show sleep aids, and Dave was hopeful about Daredevil's second season. Tara and Melanie explained (at normal volumes) why they are NOT Crackpots before we congratulated Lester Holt and shunned Jared Fogle. And I don't want to alarm you guys but Game Time is COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE. (Unless it was only the cat.) GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🙀 Scream Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome Around The Dial: 🐼 We Bought Into A Zoo Around The Dial: 🕵🏻‍♂️ Bosch Around The Dial: 🫠 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🧹 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners Around The Dial: 👹 Daredevil I Am Not A Crackpot: 👂 Humans Winner & Loser: 👍 Lester Holt Winner & Loser: 👎 Jared Fogle Game Time: 🔪 Do You Want To Play A Game? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 078 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dear Mr. President, There are too many ways TV can confuse us or let us down. Please eliminate three. We are NOT crackpots! Dave, Sarah, Tara, and special guest Nick Rheinwald-Jones share their own crackpot TV theories or opinions, and discuss submissions from listeners just like you. Join us for a completely sane, non-fruitcakey outing! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥜 I Am Not A Crackpot Game Time: ☁️ I Am Not A Crackpot NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 077 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Our esteemed colleague Nick willingly trapped himself Under The Dome as CBS's summer "hit" returns for another season of crappy acting, bad CGI, and inexplicable character beats. After Sarah ripped off a rant about jeans and we compared jazz unfavorable with a certain True Detective's anti-bullying regime, we went around the dial with Key & Peele, A History of Radness, European shows of Dave enjoyment, and the excellent wardrobe in a bad ad. The Panel considered The Alias for The Inclusion in The Canon and we cringed at Messrs. Trump and Lecter before a Game Time on finales. If you can jump the chasm of killer butterflies, join us at the Zenith of fun on an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍙 Under The Dome Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Your Father Being Buttfucked With Your Mom’s Headless Corpse On This Goddamn Lawn Around The Dial: 🔑 Key & Peele Around The Dial: 🩸 Another Period Around The Dial: 🧥 Humira-Commercial Jacket Fashion Around The Dial: 👂 Humans Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Deutschland 83 The Canon: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Alias S03.E19: Hourglass Winner & Loser: 👍 Univision Winner & Loser: 👎 Hannibal Game Time: 🎁 Wrapping It Up NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 076 page on ExtraHotGreat.com