595: The TV Superhero Bracket

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, After Shows

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

For this special episode, we're returning to the bracket format, but slimmed down for just your three co-hosts: we made up an Elite Eight of TV superheroes -- no one from the DC or Marvel universes allowed -- and argued through which deserved to go all the way. Which hero stands atop the rest of our selected comers? Listen and learn!

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🦅 Jonathan Chase from Manimal
🐆 Manimal's opening credits
⏳ Dan Vasser from Journeyman
🕰️ Journeyman on Wikipedia
📏 Cootie from I'm A Virgo
👨‍🚀 Steve Austin from The Six Million Dollar Man
🃏 Charlie Cale from Poker Face
🚗 Brett Matthews from Turbo Teen
🤺 Samurai Jack
📠 Awesome-X from Frisky Dingo

Transcript

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0:00.0	Believe it or not, George, isn't at home.
0:09.0	Please leave a message at the beat.
0:12.0	I must be out before I pick up the phone.
0:16.0	Where could I be?
0:19.0	Believe it or not, I'm not home.
0:27.7	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast,
0:32.1	episode 595 for the week of December 29th,
0:36.2	2025.
0:40.8	IA. 95 for the week of December 29, 2025. I am teen with decent mileage per gallon, David T. Cole.
0:45.4	And I'm here with still a dumbass Sarah Defunding.
0:48.6	Bullshit.
0:49.7	And Guardian of the Mean Streets of the Town, Tara Arelliano.
0:54.4	Shut hooker. Music guardian of the mean streets of the town, Tara Ariano. Shut up, poker.
1:03.8	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week.
1:08.2	We're so glad you're here.
1:10.1	We are doing another pre-tape. In our timeline,
1:13.5	it's not even Halloween yet. Yours, it's New Year's Eve. What time to be alive. We are
1:20.3	returning to the idea of a bracket this week. We are not going with a sweet 16. That was a lot.
1:26.7	The first time we did it, like, way longer than we thought it was going to be.
1:30.7	So this time we decided to try to do an elite eight, and we came up with eight non-Marville
1:37.6	or DC TV superheroes.
1:40.4	Dave and Sarah each put in three.
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