365: Humour With a U in It

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We return to our first wave of inductees into The Incomparable’s Television Hall of Fame, as we enshrine 10 more series that our panelists consider among the greatest of all time. This second batch spans seven decades and includes sketch comedy, animation, sitcoms, dramas, and even a show that premiered less than a year ago. [Part two of two.]

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0:00.0	The Incomparable.
0:06.0	Number 365, August 2017.
0:12.5	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:14.9	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:16.2	This is part two of our TV show Hall of Fame draft in our previous episode.
0:24.7	You heard my guest, Glenn Fleischman, David J. Lour, Moises Chiuyan, Andy Aniko, Erica Ensign,
0:30.2	John Syracusa, Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dang, Dan Morin, and Monty Ashley, as well as myself.
0:35.1	Each of us picked a show that we believe deserves to be enshrined
0:39.1	in the Incomparables Television Hall of Fame. So that's round one. We picked 10 shows. If you missed it,
0:44.6	listen to episode 364. We picked Barney Miller, your show of shows, Mr. Rogers neighborhood,
0:49.5	Columbo, Doctor Who, The Sopranos, late night with David Letterman, The Wire, the Simpsons, and Star Trek.
0:55.5	And in the truest spirit of a fantasy sports draft, I decided with 10 people picking,
1:01.7	the only fair thing to do would be to reverse matters for the second round in what's called
1:07.4	a snake draft. And what does that mean?
1:09.1	Yes, that's right. Your host, who always goes last because he's so deferential to his guests, gets to pick first.
1:17.2	And now his logic is revealed.
1:19.9	And you sniped yourself.
1:21.9	Oh, I wonder what it could be.
1:23.6	I see how this worked.
1:25.7	Dan, I feel like I'm going to lay down steaks in this round.
1:29.6	How about that, Dan?
1:31.6	I don't get it.
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