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Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

466: Canada Day Forcenings

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, After Shows

4.7640 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

For the first week of this July, we decided to honor the other national holiday: Canada Day! And what genre delivers the most CONCENTRATED dose of Canadian TV crappiness? Game shows! Therefore, Dave is forcening Sarah to watch Pitfall; Sarah's forcening Tara to watch Acting Crazy; and Tara's forcening Dave to watch Jackpot. We can't promise you that listening will help you win an 8-and-a-half-pound portable TV, but you should do it anyway!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🛗 Pitfall

Lead Topic: 😜 Acting Crazy

Lead Topic: 💰 Jackpot

Game Time: 🍁 Canadian Or Something Else?

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 466 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🛗 Sarah's forcened episode of Pitfall on YouTube

😜 Tara's forcened episode of Acting Crazy on YouTube

❤️‍🔥 Tara's interview with Maureen Ryan on Cracked.com

📚 Signed copies of Last Call at Exhibit B.

💵 The 1975 episode of American Jackpot Dave was initially forcened to watch

💰 Dave's forcened episode of (Canadian) Jackpot

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Jackpot, 249, recorded today for playback. If Caminetti gets it all edited properly66 for the week of July 3rd, 2003.

0:33.9

I am Strategic Maple Reservist David T. Cole, and I'm here with Unique Pig, Sarah D. Bunting.

0:41.5

I make Canadian bacon.

0:43.6

And charity polo player Tara Ariano.

0:46.6

Horse pun!

0:51.3

Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week, not just another week for a holiday.

1:01.5

We are pre-taping this as is our want. And since we had previously on another 4th of July

1:07.9

week done America foresonings, this time we decided to mix it up and do Canada Day forsonings.

1:14.7

And the way it shook out is all of our forcund shows just happened to be Canadian game shows.

1:21.8

Now, before we get into this, Dave, do you just want to let our American and other nationalities listeners know why this is particularly funny?

1:32.9

Canadian game shows as an industry follow the rule of tense when it comes to Canada, which is Canada is one-tenth the size of America.

1:41.4

Therefore, prize money is one-tenth the size of American prize money.

1:45.3

The hosts have one-tenth amount of talent, usually.

1:49.0

Yeah.

1:49.1

Et cetera, et cetera.

1:50.3

Everything is 10% of an American endeavor in the same entertainment space.

1:56.1

Yes.

1:56.6

Canadian game shows are almost universally terrible in a sort of an enjoyable train wrecky, as Sarah might say, glue, gum, and popsicle stick kind of construction kind of way.

2:09.5

You can see walls blowing in the wind in the background of the set.

2:14.3

Everything is just really cheap.

2:16.6

You may remember we did a half hour of just

2:19.9

like Mum recently on extra, extra hot rate for our value Patreon subscribers, in which the final

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