366: Shouldn't Have Worked But It Did
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
4.7 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The talented EHG Assist team tasked the panel -- plus returning guest Jeff Drake! -- with talking about shows and episodes that shouldn't have worked, but somehow did. We began our theme episode with the late-'70s satire Soap. Do the problematic parts justify the hilarity around them? Is some of the bad acting and slow pacing an homage of sorts to daytime dramas? Should you (re-)watch, or just find a supercut of all the previouslies and next-ons? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Circle, Nailed It!, Pop-Up Video, and Battle Of The Network Stars, before a complete 180 in tone brought us to a Canon submission from 2020's Normal People. AppleTV+ both won AND lost, and then we all updated our quiz résumés for Game Time. Good morning, Bensons -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🫧 Soap
Around The Dial: ⭕️ The Circle
Around The Dial: 🎂 Nailed It
Around The Dial: 📼 Pop-Up Video
Around The Dial: 🏃♀️ Battle Of The Network Stars
The Canon: 🧍♂️ Normal People S01.E10: Episode 10
Winner & Loser: 👍 Ted Lasso
Winner & Loser: 👎 Amazing Stories
Game Time: 🧠 Working Hard Or Hardly Working?
NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 366 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Jeff Drake On Twitter
👰♀️ Tara's interview with Married At First Sight showrunner Montré Burton at Decider
🌳 Watch Jeff Drake's show, Central Park, on AppleTV+
💿 Jeff just released an album! Listen to it on Basecamp
📼 Watch a big old playlist of vintage Pop-Up Video
🌠 Watch the 1976 Battle Of The Network Stars
🏃🏻♂️ Or skip directly to the notorious Robert Conrad relay
🎶 Get more music-documentary content on the Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Patreon
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| 0:00.0 | The story you're about to see is true. |
| 0:05.4 | The names have not been changed. |
| 0:08.1 | It is the tale of a great war. |
| 0:11.8 | Once upon a time in a sea-coast town, three fearless leaders of great renown |
| 0:17.1 | summoned the men, the women, and the young to do battle for glory, for honor and pride. |
| 0:23.8 | The lines were drawn. The intent was clear. Those that gathered would clash without fear. |
| 0:36.4 | This is the Extra Hot Girl. This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 366 for the week of August 2nd, 2021. |
| 0:48.5 | I am questionable high-end kitchen, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Breakfast |
| 0:54.0 | Underbiner, Severty Bunting. Good morning, Benson David T. Cole. And I'm here with Breakfast Underbiner, Sarah DeBunting. |
| 0:56.0 | Good morning, Benson. |
| 0:57.6 | Tennis student Tara Ariano. |
| 0:59.4 | Backhand, hand job. What's the difference? |
| 1:01.3 | And invisibility enthusiast, Jeff Drake. |
| 1:04.6 | So ventriloquist, |
| 1:05.8 | Dumbies aren't people. |
| 1:09.8 | Hello, everybody. And welcome to a special episode of Extra Hot Great. |
| 1:14.6 | It is the second in our hashtag program EHG series. |
| 1:19.5 | We take six word pitches to start us off on a thematic episode. |
| 1:24.9 | And I went to the good people at ESG Assist. |
| 1:28.1 | That is the Twitter group that helps us flesh out game times, gets us game time ideas, |
| 1:32.9 | great group of people there. |
| 1:34.0 | So I wanted to reward them for all their help in the recent past. |
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