601: Did The 'Burbs Make Us Stir-Crazy?
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
4.7 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Peacock counter-programmed the Super Bowl with a series adaptation of the 1989 horror comedy The 'Burbs. Horror expert Matt Monagle makes his EHG début to discuss whether it made a convincing case for its existence in its new format. Around The Dial stops at Shrinking S03 and the first two seasons of AMC's Interview With The Vampire. Tara explains why front-facing vertical video commercials in the style of social media ads have no business airing on TV. Sean pitches the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we end on a non-regulation game time that's bathed in blood. Quit spying on your neighbors and listen!
GUESTS
👤 Matt Monagle
TOPICS
Announcement: 👚 Sarah, Subs & Shirts
Lead Topic: 🏘️ The 'Burbs
Around The Dial: 😶🌫️ Shrinking
Around The Dial: 🧛🏻 Interview With The Vampire
I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤳 TikTok-Style Ads Have No Place On Television
The Canon: 🚀 Star Trek: The Next Generation S07.E25: All Good Things...
Winner & Loser: ⚔️ Baldur's Gate
Winner & Loser: 🥔 Tate McRae
Game Time: 🔪 19 Questions: TV Horror Edition
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🦋 Matt Monagle on Bluesky
📜 Resources for Haitian residents in Springfield, OH at Ohio Immigrant
🧟♂️ Certified Forgotten
📷 Photo: Elizabeth Morris / Peacock
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't like that one bed. |
| 0:09.5 | Show's over. |
| 0:16.5 | This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 601 for the week of February 9th, |
| 0:23.4 | 2006. |
| 0:28.5 | I am Tit Gremlin David T. Cole, and I'm here with indoor wife Tara Ariano. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm allergic to the sun. |
| 0:35.3 | And next door warrior Matt Monagall. |
| 0:38.0 | I don't trust my neighbors. |
| 0:51.5 | Welcome to Extra Hot. |
| 0:53.4 | Before we properly welcome our guests. We do have a little podcast business to get through. Sarah, you did not hear her in the intro, is not joining us this week. She's unfortunately out again dealing with family situation. We hope to welcome her back probably next week. So everyone, think good thoughts for Sarah while she |
| 1:11.9 | deals with the family situation. All right. A couple more announcements. One, there is a yearly |
| 1:16.4 | subscription option now on Patreon. So if you want to subscribe for a year at a time, and I think |
| 1:22.2 | you save 20%, I think. Yes. So it goes from 60 a year to 48. |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah, that makes sense. |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah, down from $5 a month to $4. |
| 1:31.3 | Right. |
| 1:31.7 | And that is an option, and I believe you can switch it any time. |
| 1:35.2 | You don't have to wait for your whatever you're doing now to run out type of deal. |
| 1:38.6 | So go to Patreon to deal with that, if you wish. |
| 1:41.5 | And then small follow up from our extra, extra hot great on last Friday. |
| 1:47.3 | The all right Fred shirt is in the store. I made good on my threat during that episode to turn my |
| 1:53.2 | exploding whale doodle into a shirt. And I didn't redo it. I just scanned it in. So it's all there. |
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