584: Breaking Down The Chair Company

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, After Shows

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Tim Robinson is back with The Chair Company, a cringe-com with a mystery (or is it??) at its center, and Variety's Alison Herman is also back to talk about it: the little self-flagellating moments the show gets right, whether it's the Tim Robinson property for people who usually don't enjoy Tim Robinson, and why Robinson is like David Lynch. We went Around The Dial with 9-1-1s old and new, Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, and The Alabama Solution, and Tara busted out her see! cret! skill! at Canon pitching for a first-season episode of Platonic. Julio Torres won, Yellowjackets lost, and the panel tried to hit IMDb episode-count bulls-eyes in the second half of the 30 Under 30 Game Time. Leave that deviled-egg remnant right where it is and come join us!

GUESTS
👤 Alison Herman

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🪑 The Chair Company
Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Nashville
Around The Dial: 🚒 9-1-1
Around The Dial: 🤡 Devil In Disguise
Around The Dial: 😮‍💨 The Alabama Solution
The Canon: 🏟️ Platonic S01.E05: My Wife's Boyfriend
Winner & Loser: 🔷 Julio Torres
Winner & Loser: 🐝 Yellowjackets
Game Time: ⬇️ 30 Under 30 Part 2

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
✍️ Alison Herman at Variety
💺 Alison's review of The Chair Company for Variety
📜 Sarah's review of The Alabama Solution at Best Evidence
📚 Exhibit B. Books
🍆 Tara's interview with Platonic's Luke Macfarlane
🤝 Alison's review of Platonic S01
📷 Photo: Sarah Shatz / HBO

Transcript

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0:00.0	Were you taking pictures of my wheelbarrow?
0:02.0	What?
0:03.0	No.
0:04.0	Are you the guy that's been saying, I'm not allowed to have a wheelbarrow in the office?
0:08.0	No.
0:09.0	Why would anybody care?
0:10.0	It never goes outside.
0:11.0	It's an inside wheelbarrow.
0:13.0	I could understand it if it's an outdoor wheelbarrow.
0:16.0	That's dangerous.
0:17.0	That's disgusting.
0:19.0	But it's not.
0:20.0	... That's disgusting. But it's not.
0:32.9	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 584 for the week of October 13, 2025.
0:43.0	I am Tactical Getaway shirt, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Outdoor Wheelbarrow, Serity Bunting.
0:44.4	I'm disgusting.
0:47.1	Unknowing mall shopper Tara Arelliano.
0:48.3	I think I would know.
0:50.9	And worst pillow in town, Alice and Herman.
0:52.7	Made of goddamn metal. Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week, joining us.
1:04.7	She is a TV critic at Variety.
1:06.3	You've heard with us many times before.
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