Getting Booked By Emergency's Fuzz Lady

Dave: [0:09] This is the Extra Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 325 for the November 9th, 2024 weekend. I am workaholic lady cop who works twice as hard as the guys, David T. Cole. And I'm here with unsuspenseful house fire, Sarah D. Bunting. Sarah: [0:31] No rush, guys. Dave: [0:32] And killjoy grandma, Tara Ariano. Tara: [0:35] Now you're in for it. Dave: [0:43] Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Extra, Extra Hot Great, made possible by your support. Thank you so much. And also thank you to Leslie for the subject of this month's forcing pool. It is Emergency Escalmation Point Season 2, Episode 7, Fuzz Lady. Why this episode? Why this show? Leslie says, because Emergency! Is the great-grandfather of ER and 911 and other hospital shows. Very little time is spent on the private lives of the paramedics and firefighters because it is paramedic propaganda. Emergency! Dave: [1:22] Was created by Jack Webb, noted propagandist creator of Dragnet, no exclamation point, to promote the newly established paramedic services. The propaganda worked and it did educate Americans about paramedics, CPR and the dangers of swallowing a soda can tab or sticking your hand in a garbage disposal. Well, that's all important background information, Leslie. Thank you. The episode is Fuzz Lady. It aired November 4th, 1972. I was a couple days shy of being six months old, so I was ready for this episode. This episode, I'm going to say, is a real rando collection of events involving the rescue squad, cops, and doctors as they save various Los Angeles dum-dums from themselves. So let's get into it. Jump in when you guys want. We start off in the middle of Los Angeles' worst bout of day for night, or maybe night for day, or maybe they shot it during a solar eclipse. I don't know what was going on with the quality of light, but it was a weird way to start the episode. Tara: [2:23] That's the first note I took. Dave: [2:25] The L.A. County Fire Department Station 51 have been called to a park to deal with an injured mugger. Paramedics Roy DeSoto, Kevin Ty, and Johnny Gage, Randolph Mantooth, arrive on the scene to see the mugger waylaid on the grass. A young Sharon Gless is caring for the mugger, advocating for painkillers, propping his head up and dabbing his brow. But it's the 70s, man, and like, black is white and white is black and all your tiny conventions need to be questioned and subverted as Johnny soon finds out. Is she going to go to jail too? She. Her. Sarah: [3:04] No, no, no. You have that a little backwards. She's one of our deputies. In fact, if it wasn't for her, he would have gotten away. She's a deputy? Uh-huh. Tara: [3:16] Flipped him like a pro. Laid him right out. . Dave: [3:26] That's really far out. It is really far out. Tara: [3:31] Yeah. It's a real, now I've seen everything moment. Like, they've been lady cops before this. Yeah. Dave: [3:39] Lady cops? The interesting bit of procedure, I thought, of this scene is that the paramedics have to call into the hospital to get the doctor to sign off on morphine use for a painkiller, which I don't think I've ever seen in a paramedic show or movie scene before. And I'm wondering if this is something they actually have to do. It seems like it would really slow shit down if they can't get a doctor on the phone. Tara: [4:04] I mean, if this is a brand new service, that would make sense, where it's like they aren't doctors. They don't actually have prescribing power. Dave: [4:12] Right. So after that, we are at the hospital. After dumping the mugger off at ER, Johnny grills the police captain about Sheila, the fuzz lady, while nurse Dixie McCall, great name, sets up another plot line. The hospital morphine supplies being stolen by no good Knicks. They even stole Johnny's fireman jacket while they were around. Tara: [4:34] I love that detail. Dave: [4:36] It's weird to think nurses actually wore those nurses caps that you imagine nurses wearing. Weird ass looking things. I don't know what the medieval history of that is. I'm sure it's got some really crazy, gross story. My mom was a head nurse at a hospital in the 70s, and she had to wear that same goofy hat. I can attest, they all hated it. This is accurate. Next scene, Firehouse, days later. Here's something you don't see anymore. Roy pours himself a visibly hot cup of coffee, steam and all, and then Johnny drinks it, steam and all, while it's still hot. What a careless world the 70s was. Over coffee, Johnny says he tried to ask Fuzz Lady Sheila on a date, but he got turned down, leaving the status of the relationship on working on it. Roy has opinions about Johnny's opinions. Also, Johnny's laugh here in this clip. I'll tell you something. I know women. Dave: [5:50] Station 51, engine 210. Mercy, mercy. That was the basis for any childhood role-playing you were doing involving the show emergency. It would start off like, and then you would announce what everybody's going to do. Uh-oh, the Capitol building is on fire. We have to save all the records from melting. Dave: [6:12] Next scene is the chill neighborhood fire scene. So when they get the, to get to this chill neighborhood fire, they're leaving the station. There's a Cormier Chevrolet dealership in the background. Plus I can see a major highway. So I looked it up. Apparently the station is, location is Carson, not LA proper. So Carson, if you have ever driven through it, is the Blade Runner town where you're like, why does this whole town look like the start of Blade Runner? That's Carson. Dave: [6:42] Like Top Gun, the show spends a lot of time showing you the expensive hardware it paid for the show. Sure, in movies like Top Gun, you got billion dollar jets flying around. This one, you get the one truck and the one wagon for the paramedics. and they show a lot of it. Getting onto the highway, driving on the highway, sauntering down the neighborhood streets to the chillest fire seed you ever did see. Wash them, unpackage some hose, hook them up to hydrants, but not turn on the water because we don't have the budget for that sort of water damage cleanup. So all the firefighting is done with fake axe strikes on roofs and climbing into windows with ladders and that sort of stuff. So we're at the scene. An avocado green, 70s, Camaro pulls up in front of all the activity. A woman pops out and establishes the stakes. Sarah: [7:42] Help. Help me. Dave: [7:50] Way to sound like Grandpa and welcome to the soundboard. Tara: [7:54] Help me. Dave: [7:56] Help. Sarah: [7:57] Help me. Help me. Different strokes. This is like that pinball machine we had in the club TV room in college. Uh the it was the tornado one and uh the reading of the storm is over. Dave: [8:18] Return to your home i remember that oh my god i don't remember that yeah it would. Sarah: [8:24] Have been the same guy who could say. Dave: [8:25] Good thing they saved. Sarah: [8:26] Him from that fire so he could. Dave: [8:28] Tell us. Sarah: [8:29] With minimum energy. Dave: [8:34] Speaking about saving him the show takes a minute like a full minute i timed it to show one firefighter climb up the ladder to get to grandpa in the second story window and they eventually do get grandpa out of there they have to destroy a window and put him wrap him in a blanket fire him and carry him down the ladder pops says the woman ain't been quite right in the head lately and probably started the fire oh pop warned him so many times about smoking, he's just getting too old i guess throw him in the trash. Sarah: [9:12] Oh my god. Dave: [9:13] So the medics the paramedics are doing their thing his pulse is slow he doesn't know where he is they give him oxygen and get him to the hospital at the hospital dr mike morton thinks the paramedics gave him bad numbers on pops and they shouted each other for a bit before dr kelly bracket. That's man, Kelly. We've already got a woman police officer. We don't need a woman doctor in the same show to confuse everybody. Tara: [9:37] God, no. Dave: [9:38] Dr. Kelly Manbracket takes over and I'm sure he says something that pops or does something for pops. But I got distracted because this guy is wearing all the eyeshadow from the makeup department. Tara: [9:51] OK. Dave: [9:51] All of it. He shares the scene with nurse Dixie McCall and he is definitely wearing the most eyeshadow. Tara: [9:58] Yeah. There's an episode of NewsRadio where Brad Rowe plays like the intern. Everyone is like abusing him, basically. And one of the ways is like Beth tries out a new makeup look on his face because he's so beautiful. And Dr. Kelly brackets man bracket has exactly that much fun. Like he really looks like he's on his way to do a direct show. It's crazy every time he blinks how much blue eyeshadow there is. Dave: [10:25] A lot. Sarah: [10:26] The lashes, too. Tara: [10:27] Yeah. And the blush. Sarah: [10:29] Yeah. Nuts. Dave: [10:31] Yeah. Okay, so as long as we're agreed, this character is now called Dr. Eyeshadow. Tara: [10:35] Sure. Dave: [10:36] Okay. Cole's notes to me being, I had to rewind it, but what happened during my eyeshadow, you know, brain fog, was that the nurse says the difference between Pops reading on the site and Pops reading at the hospital might mean something. Johnny bumps into Sheila, Fuzz Lady, in the hallway of the hospital, who tells him she's at the hospital undercover on the missing morphine case now. Johnny tries to sell her on meeting over dinner to discuss the case, you know, kind of like Homer wants Marge to teach him French, that sort of deal. Sarah: [11:11] I told you no to that the other night. Yeah, I know, I know, but this is business. You're business, right? Dave: [11:34] I was expecting one beat and then it turned into two beats and then three beats for the little music at the end. Like, oh, you got rejected, rejected, rejected, rejected. Yeah. Yeah. And then like an old doctor then slides into the scene and says, someone just stole a $5,000 ethno, no supper, a tall guy graph or something. I don't know what that was, but it's gone now and it's big. I don't know how it got stolen. Sounds like a serious piece of equipment, but it's gone now too. So, so far, this guy's got a lot of morphine, a $5,000 ethno-no-separate tall guy graph, and a fireman's jacket. Then the next five minutes is basically a medical instruction film about slow hearts. It really takes so long. It's actually five minutes long. Dr. Eyeshadow takes Pop's son and daughter-in-law who we met in the green Camaro through his diagnosis that pop's heart condition is causing his old folk issues and giving him a genuine general electric pacemaker might cure him. Sarah: [12:39] I really love the set design of this like those old anatomical charts that are pulled down like classroom maps are my absolute favorite and that heart one was like just really garishly colored and illustrated and the cutaway of the ventricles just looked extremely like, you know, scared straight but for med students. So I enjoyed that part of it. But yeah, that was a stately sequence in a show full of them, frankly. Dave: [13:12] It went on for so long. Let me just rewind a second. This guy needs a pacemaker. And so the doctor wants to explain that. Eventually, anytime, in fact, he could suffer total heart block. And there's, with an artificial pacemaker. So a small unit like this that uses batteries to produce the impulses. This thing he pulls out is the size of a deck of cards. It's so big. Sarah: [13:41] They are so big. It's like a brick. Dave: [13:44] And it uses batteries. There's like 12 stacked hearing aid batteries on this thing. Tara: [13:51] When my dad, when I was a kid, my dad was, he would umpire baseball and he had a little thing for like balls and strikes. That's what it reminded me. Sarah: [14:00] The little clicker? Tara: [14:01] Yeah. Sarah: [14:01] I had one of those. Dave: [14:03] Everybody had one of those. Everybody wanted to be the umpire the first time that hit the playground. At this moment, there's a cold blue on pops. So everybody runs to the ER. They stick the pacemaker in and he's all better now. Hooray! Back at the firehouse for some whiplash. There's a weird scene with a dog who wanders in from a nearby snorkel business. His name is Boot. He seems like a regular visitor and he hates Johnny. I like this scene because we are given some fantastic man-tooth vamping. He hasn't changed one bit, has he? Listen, you dumb dog. If you've come back here to go. I ran out of juice. I knew I should have quit groundlings. At this point, we got another little segment. It is the failed rocket launch at a park. Grandpa and grandson exploded a hobby rocket using their own special fuel recipe that blew up in Grandpa's face. Tara: [15:15] Literally. Dave: [15:16] Yeah. Grandma comes in after a little bit, yells at them, and is very pleased when officer public service announcement stops by the park. Now you're in for it? Not necessarily, ma'am, so long as they were obeying county regulations. You see, the main thing is to keep a proper distance from the pad and being old enough to run the launch. It's very G.I. Joe ending, knowing us have to battle. Tara: [15:42] Yeah. Sarah: [15:43] And how are they supposed to get that information? Tara: [15:47] Right. Sarah: [15:48] Have you visited your local library to acquaint yourself with launch pad regulations for home explosives? Tara: [15:57] I guess they would put that stuff in the newspaper and assume that everyone got the newspaper because it was three cents an issue. Dave: [16:03] Well, back in the 70s, there was one day a year called Bylaw Day, where we all celebrated by going to City Hall and looking up the bylaws. What's new? What's new in 72? Tara: [16:13] Even when I was a kid, not in 72, because I wasn't born yet. But the Parks Department would send out once a year a little book with all the classes you could take and everything. So maybe that was the kind of thing where it's just like, this is a city. City information the city shares with you. Dave: [16:29] Back at the firehouse again. They return where Johnny has put Boot in a chair like he's going to interrogate him. And it's a really weird scene. Here it is. Tara: [16:38] Do you practice on yoga or something? I'm just trying, have a point. Dave: [17:17] I don't know. Tara: [17:18] What that was there's so. Sarah: [17:21] Many random things i'm starting to not like him. Tara: [17:23] Let the dog. Sarah: [17:24] Be get over it. Tara: [17:26] Douche the uh i'm and i'm not too sensitive either i'm not either is i know we talked about this before when i was at some point someone had an ask ehg question that was like something you only ever hear on tv and i said i know it yeah and that i'm not either is another one of those for me, but it might just be that it's an American thing or a regional thing. Dave: [17:45] It does sound weird to my ears to hear somebody say it, for sure. Tara: [17:48] I only hear it in pop culture or, like, in old books from the 70s, like Beverly Cleary or Judy Blume books. Dave: [17:54] Right. Sarah: [17:55] Mm-hmm. Dave: [17:56] Back at the hospital, Nurse McCall, who, to remind you, does everybody's job for them, having done Dr. Eyeshadow's job diagnosing the problem between the paramedics readings and the in-hospital readings, now spies and orderly she doesn't know, messing with the dispensary as she heads into pop's pacemaker surgery where by the way we get a full couple minutes of like i don't know what it is x-ray vision attempts to thread the pacemaker thingy into the heart again top gunning it like we've got this machine is actually showing us something let's show it for like two minutes because people here in 1972 are going to be really fucking impressed it's the csi tech cam of this day except it's just a static x-ray of like this wire going into some guy's chest. You can't even see where the heart is in this thing because, you know, it's muscle. So whatever. 1972, I guess people were amused by this. McCall, having seen this orderly that she doesn't know, tells Sheila, who busts the perp in the parking garage. Deputy Sheriff, you're under arrest. Lady Cop? No lady taking me in. Freeze, mister! Get your hands up on the hood. Your legs spread apart. Does anybody want to take here take it take it what happened because it was a little jaw-dropping what was going on here yeah. Tara: [19:25] Friggin sheila gives gage her gun. Dave: [19:27] She gives it to randolph mantooth to hold. Tara: [19:30] On this guy he's not qualified to do that. Dave: [19:32] Not only that so passes off the gun mantooth has the gun and then she is separating his legs and doing all the cop shit and then he tells roy to get the handcuffs from my pocket what was she gonna do if she was alone what would what would the order of operations be yeah just like throw the cuffs to the guy while you got a gun pointed on him tell him like hook himself up to the car or whatever i. Tara: [19:55] Mean i have seen people do that in cop shows but. Sarah: [19:57] Yeah yeah it also seemed like a lot of these scenes did like this was the first take and there had been no rehearsal she is not good like i like this actor but she is not good in this episode and all of this kind of read like you know the director called in hungover today so i guess we're gonna shoot these scenes ourselves and not do any blocking and. Dave: [20:22] That's how. Sarah: [20:22] That all of that read to me i'm sure that wasn't the case but like take it go on. Dave: [20:27] Yeah you know how some actors are like they have to immerse themselves in the role so they'll like they'll do research like albertino doing like serpico and following the guys around for months she didn't do that. She was at craft services. Tara: [20:41] Yeah. Well, I mean, she wouldn't do that for this one episode role. Like she, they called her in last Tuesday and it's Friday. Dave: [20:50] The other little thing about this is when Roy has to cuff the guy, he does so apologizing to him, which I thought was a cute little note. Oh, geez. I'm really sorry about this. I don't usually cuff people. I'm a firefighter paramedic so with that out of the way back in the hospital proper johnny recounts the actual date he wrangled out of sheila i don't know when in time this is if this is supposed to be immediately after or days later or when this date happened in the timeline it's just inserted here like in a really abrupt sort of way but let's listen to what he had to say well i took her to a fancy restaurant right you know the candlelight and the, investment, huh? Oh, hush. Tara: [22:07] Damn. Sarah: [22:08] So he strained his shoulder, jerking off? Tara: [22:11] No, I thought that he, like, hit on her and she hurt him. Dave: [22:15] She, like, put him in the arm behind your back. Sarah: [22:17] Oh, okay. Dave: [22:18] Cop brace. Not a good look there, Gage. Tara: [22:21] No. Sarah: [22:22] No. Dave: [22:23] So we've just bookended Sheila's story, and I figured that was the end of the episode, except there's still another 15 minutes or so left, and it's the set piece for the rescue folks. And it's such a convoluted setup. up. So here's the geography of the situation. As far as I could tell, there was a couple of thieves near a dock. They saw a boat that's been sitting there and they want to steal it. The easiest way to steal it to them is getting on the giant dockside crane that they use for shipping containers, hooking up the boat, and then they're going to swing it to, I don't know, a truck or something that's waiting. I don't know. They're never really discussed. And then somehow Now, like three, four stories up, this guy, this thief, gets his legs stuck between the crane and like the dock apparati. You know, the dock. I don't know what it is. Just like the metal tower of the dock, I guess. Tara: [23:18] Yeah. Dave: [23:19] He's up there. So they have to like climb up there and figure out how to get him out. And like the crane's not working and they have to press the crane button to start at 20 times. And it's the closest thing to 911 we get in this show. You know, it's like a little weird, but it's not, of course, like Volcano and Austin weird. It feels incredibly tacked on to the rest of this episode, though. It feels like it could have been the starter of the next episode. Tara: [23:44] Totally. Dave: [23:45] Because like I really thought it was going to end when they wrapped up the who's the thief in the hospital stuff. Because that was. Tara: [23:51] And Sheila shutting down Gage. Dave: [23:53] Yeah. And that's like screenwriting. That's where you end it. But here's this whole thing. And it was so just weird. There's nothing wrong with the segment, but it's just like it was like felt like really good filler, which is a weird thing to say about it. Sarah: [24:07] Well, you're more generous than I am. I thought there was absolutely no suspense to this part whatsoever because they did such a bad job setting up, in my opinion, and I watched a couple of parts of it back that I was like, what am I missing here about what is the danger aside from being however many stories up and being a thief who does not want to be helped by the EMTs because then he's going to get arrested as well. But other than that, it's like, so if they turn the crane on, do you lose your leg? Oh, you don't? So how is it stuck? Because the way it was shot, it's like, just pull your leg out, professor. What the fuck? Dave: [24:53] You wanted some of that Homicide Subway episode energy in here? Sarah: [24:58] Yeah. Some Denofriotics would have helped too. Let's not lie. Dave: [25:05] And then the episode just ends, you know, in one of those classic walking off the scene doing their firefighter stuff. And that was emergency from 52 years ago. Tara: [25:16] It was fun. The acting styles of Randolph Mantooth really livened up this process for me because the stories did not really get me there. But him like having a crush on a girl and like doing that weird toothy smile like he was such a dorkist up until the moment when it's implied that he like got too handsy and he had to get his ass handed to him. I enjoyed him. Sarah: [25:41] I liked all the sort of mid-century appurtenances of it, the heart chart. Yeah. I know the nurse's hats were a pain, but I liked that hers appeared to have like felt stripes indicating that she was a character who would have dialogue. Tara: [25:54] Sure. Sarah: [25:55] And I also like that early 70s, there's sort of like a hinge point in terms of like technology. There's like a great leap forward, I feel like that happens about five years from now, eight years from now, where like things are like they have digital displays, they are smaller, they're not all light blue and beige in color anymore. But when you're still in that sort of early 70s mode where a lot of the technology and communications technology has functionally not changed since the Eisenhower administration, I find that compelling and soothing to see, like a Selectric. Dave: [26:39] In the first scene where they go to the mugger in the park and they have to call it in, they're basically using a Vietnam field phone, except it's painted orange because it's the 70s. Sarah: [26:47] Like you have to wind up. Yeah, yeah, totally. Dave: [26:50] But that's in like every episode. That's like part of the kit. It's in the credits too. Actually, the credits end on a shot of that field phone, which is a really weird thing to end the credits on. But it's like the third lead, really, Sarah, the field phone. Sarah: [27:04] It's a character, like the city. Dave: [27:07] Yeah. This was a show that obviously I watched as a kid. This is pre-Star Wars. You take what you can get on television. This ran for like seven seasons. So I think it went through to like 78 or 79. Sarah: [27:20] So 79. Dave: [27:21] I was definitely watching first run of the emergency. I had the board game. I think I might have had the lunch pail at a certain point before I swapped over to Star Wars stuff. Sarah: [27:29] A lot of kids had that one. Dave: [27:32] So it was interesting to revisit. It was way slower and a lot less fire stuff than I expected. But still, I enjoyed it for what it was. Tara: [27:42] Yeah, but I'd never seen the show before. I only knew it as a reference. So this was fun to be forcing to watch. Sarah: [27:49] Yeah. And it was also nice to go back to a time, the thrilling era of yesteryear, in which Kevin Tye was not playing an actively sexually felonious character on a cop show. Tara: [28:04] Yeah. Sarah: [28:04] That he's like, he's the good guy, and he's not shot really close up with gin blossom cam. I was like, oh, that is Kevin Tye, huh? I wouldn't have recognized him since I didn't feel like vomiting. So yeah, this was a, yeah, good foresening. Dave: [28:21] I thought I knew the name and I looked up on IMDb. You know, IMDb always has like a present day-ish photo instead. And I'm like, oh shit, it's that guy. That guy's bad. But he wasn't bad here. So it was kind of fun. Dave: [28:35] Speaking about something that isn't bad, but it's also a lot of fun when you really think about it. It's this theme to a little segment we call Ask E-H-G. A-ha-brr. Emergency, mercy. All right. It is time to dispense with last week's Ask Ask E-H-G judgment. Sarah is our judge this week. Sarah: [29:10] Yes i am all rise it comes from research at who asked while i was researching stuff for work i was delighted to find that there was a parody of bonanza on an episode of maverick back in 1961 wow they had parodies back then that was me not research yet do you have a favorite episode of a show that parodies another we got a bunch of very funny and good responses to this from the listenership. But first, Tara, what is your nominee for this? Tara: [29:43] Okay, well, not to add, you know, further insult to injury, but we did just talk about this. It's a known act that got voted down. But it is, in fact, the Queen of Jordan episode of 30 Rock is one that immediately leapt to mind. But moving quickly on from that, since that did not go the way the smitter wanted it to, I'll say the Go Flip Yourself episode of What We Do in the Shadows, which is not a parody of a specific house flipping show so much as it's a parody of all house flipping shows. Very funny from the previous season. Sarah: [30:16] Excellent. Mandrake also suggested that one from the listenership. And Cynthia D said, I really enjoyed the Law & Order parody in Communities Season 3, Episode 17, Basic Lupine Urology. Even the opening credits are perfect. Johnny Assay says, not sure that it's my favorite, and it's definitely not a full episode, but I have to mention the weird and memorable parody of Twin Peaks in Season 1, Episode 5 of Northern Exposure. The characters have a conversation about cherry pie and creation myths, start snapping their fingers, and discuss whether it's weird or not to carry a log around. This is all set to a pretty spot-on Bad Element-y parody. I had completely forgotten about that. Dave: [31:00] Yeah, me too. Whatever happened to the Northern Exposure reboot thing that was announced like two years ago? That does die on the vine? Tara: [31:06] Maybe they're seeing how it's doing now that it's streaming on Prime. Dave: [31:12] Right, right, right. Sarah: [31:12] It's worth yeah rincey suggested the x-files cops homage i'd forgotten about that too good suggestion c kent i wasn't sure i was going to be convinced by this but c kent suggested the real world episode of beverly hills 90210 if for no other reason than brandon as puck making the character fun and not the usual colossal drag he is normally and by character Sure, we mean Brandon and Puck. But our winner is Bezoar Laura, who asked, Does all of American Vandal Season 1 count? And as the true crime expert, I guess, weigher inner on this panel, I say yes, it does. Excellent choice. And Bezoar Laura, you know how this works. Please contact Dave directly for your sticker. And thank you, everybody, who submitted. Dave: [32:04] Yes, thank you very much. Since Tara mentioned Queen of Jordan, I'll put one in for the same type of show period in Phantasmus. Tara: [32:12] Oh, yes. Dave: [32:13] That was really good, too. Sarah: [32:14] Oh, yes. Someone did mention that. Dave: [32:15] Oh, did they? Oh, okay. Let's get to your questions for us this week. First one comes from N-E-S Excite Mike. If you were to rename each of the big four networks, what would those new names be? I love this question. More questions like this, please. Tara, rename them. Tara: [32:31] This was hard because they like they've all sort of renamed themselves as they've spun off streaming platforms like my first thought for nbc was peacock and i was like oh fuck, so this was the best i could do the first one that i thought of was for cbs and this was based on vibes more and brand uh so i would call that one silver silver centrum yeah so then i thought Not for Fox, I went with, like, you know, the quick brown fox, quick. And then, you know, when it becomes a hardcore pornography station so slowly we don't even notice they can change it to quickie. Since I can't call NBC Peacock because they already did that, I went with Feather. You know, sort of is a nod also to their comedy roots, their, you know, their long history of very good sitcoms. And then for ABC, I sort of was thinking my first thought was Alphabet, because that's the nickname in the trades that it would have. But then Google already is. That's their name. And, you know, you don't want to call it beta after the NATO alphabet. So I just went Charlie. That was the last one I came up with. And I'll say it, the worst one. Sarah. Dave: [33:45] Cbs. Sarah: [33:46] Is the nana network nbc is the dick wolf pack fox is disinformation station and abc is that other one dave. Dave: [33:54] Fart zone brapple disney less than sign cast pajamas, not answering any more questions nope and with an eee what's a role that an actor played that made you completely rethink their foxiness sarah. Sarah: [34:11] Well, I'm interested to see which direction we all interpreted that, like whether you saw them in something and were like, ugh, never again, or vice versa. Dave: [34:20] I didn't even think of it that way. Tara: [34:22] No. Sarah: [34:22] I went with vice versa, that I was like, ugh, him. And then the show made me think that he was a super fox, and that is Marc Maron, who just seemed like this annoying, buzzy creature who couldn't bring a podcast in under two hours prior to Glow. But after Glow, he, I mean, he made me swoon in that. I really like a big mustache, I guess, like a lot and tight dungarees. And then ever since then, it's always like I have to at least think about it. It's not married. Dave: [34:53] Yeah. He was good in Reservation Dogs, too. Sarah: [34:56] Oh, yeah. Yep. Yep. Tara. Tara: [34:58] I mean, recency bias, but it was the first thing that came to mind. I'm going to say young Kevin Tai in this episode of Emergency. I thought he was kind of cute. Sarah: [35:07] Yeah. Tara: [35:08] He reminded me of Luke Hemsworth, the third Hemsworth, the one who is in Westworld and is going to be in next season of Deadlock, I just read. So, yeah, I certainly never thought he was cute in that episode of fucking SVU that we watched for the canon. But here, yeah, not bad. Dave: [35:30] Milsnack asks, what should Kaven Novak's next live action project be? I think he should be Frasier's new weird British neighbor Ella Bentley from the Jeffersons he plays that role type of role in Frasier where he just comes in he does some weird British shit nobody really understands and Frasier wants to really be his friend because he perceives British people being fancier and he can't really quite get there with this guy because he's a little off kilter, Tara I. Tara: [35:59] Want to see him in a rom-com sitcom put him together with new girl creator Elizabeth Merriweather, basically for another new girl kind of a show, make his character bisexual so he can romance literally anybody. And in fact, I want to see him hitting it off with new girl love interests guest starring on the show. Let's see David Walton. Let's see Sonequa Martin-Green, Merritt Weaver, Jake Johnson. They had a lot of real hotties go through that show. So that's my idea for that. Sarah. Sarah: [36:28] Let's send out with a bang or a bang if you prefer by casting Novak as a high-level Russian mob informant in the show's final season. Dave: [36:41] Mopsoukas, as we approach American Thanksgiving, what is a TV plot line that moved you so deeply or maybe changed your thinking so dramatically that you are truly grateful to the medium of television for bringing it into your life? Tara. Tara: [36:56] I'm going to say the whole final season of The Americans, I was just so impressed with the craftsmanship of how they wound down a show that was, I think, really great right from the start, but that especially really transcended in the final season when they had to do a lot of complicated storytelling. And as I think we all agreed, when we considered the series finale for the canon, it's, you know, kind of an all-timer. So that's my answer. Sarah? Sarah: [37:26] I don't know if this is really considered a plot line, but I have always been grateful to Friday Night Lights for the way it just gave us the reality of stressful home lives and the attempts to build community in a small conservative town in Texas. Matt Saracen's whole situation, given his age, his grandmother's challenges with dementia, all of that. I think the show had great compassion for the experience of kids in that kind of small town. But as well as having compassion for the communities around them that thought they were doing right, but fucked everything up a lot of the time, it was and still is a little unusual to see that broad spectrum of a small-town community in your art. So, yeah, I miss that show. I've got to rewatch it. Tara: [38:21] Yeah, it's good. Dave: [38:22] Beez or Laura, I noticed that Sarah is fostering a cat named Rake, which should be willing to change his name to Steakface. Sarah: [38:29] He doesn't not look like a Steakface now that I'm thinking about it, and I actually already did change his name to Frankie because that was easier to spin nicknames off of, and Rake was too difficult. But with all that said, no. I don't even eat steak, so... Dave: [38:48] Yeah, but Steakface. Steakface! Mysterious username D3F42. If you lost your voice for an extended period, whom would you want to substitute for you on Extra Hot Great? Sarah. Sarah: [39:01] Does it have to be past guests? Dave: [39:04] No. Tara: [39:04] Mm-mm. Sarah: [39:05] Okay. I answered both ways. If it does, Jeb Lund, much nicer baritone than mine, used to how much I swear and will not sound incongruous doing so. But if we weren't limited to past guests, Joey Lauren Adams, who would sound completely incongruous, cursing as much as I do, but I can live with it. Tara: [39:24] Tara? I didn't consider the celebrity option. Maybe I should have. But instead, I just said Catherine Van Arundonk, who would be much more insightful than I ever have been or will be. Dave? Dave: [39:37] So if it was a real person, I would probably put Dan Casino in there because I always enjoy Dan's commentary. If it didn't need to be a real person, it's going to be Master of Disguise, is Jeff Cable from Barbary Coast as played by William Shatner. Tara: [39:50] Of course. Dave: [39:51] Because, you know, he does voices. Tara: [39:52] Mm-hmm. Dave: [39:52] Yay! That's my friend. That guy. Tara: [39:56] Yeah. Dave: [39:57] Last question for us comes from Dr. Calhoun. In the spirit of The Gambler Returns, who should be in a must-see TV team-up TV movie? Must-see TV team-up TV movie. Tara: [40:10] Yes. Dave: [40:11] Tara. Tara: [40:12] A beloved former teen show stars return as teachers in Santa Monica High. We're going to have Sarah Michelle Gellar, formerly Buffy Summers, Pat Mastroianni, formerly Joey Jeremiah of Degrassi, Tiffany Thiessen, Kelly Kapowski from Saved by the Bell, Percy Daggs III, Wallace Fennell from Veronica Mars, and as our principal, the very slightly older from a very slightly older teen show, Greg Grunberg, who played Sean on Felicity. Sarah. Sarah: [40:44] Sure, and it's a kaboom. Okay, instead of the Gambler Returns, it's the Lamster Returns. This is all TV characters who have gone on the run and ended up working in the same Omaha mall as Gene Cinnabon in Better Call Saul. So you've got Gene slash Jimmy slash Saul at Cinnabon. Tara: [41:03] Sure. Sarah: [41:04] Vito from The Sopranos at the Orange Julius Stand. Michael and Lincoln from Prison Break at the Swatch Store. I don't know. Richard Kimball from The Fugitive making milkshakes at Johnny Rockets and all of them trying to avoid Dog the Bounty Hunter in his mall security golf cart. Tara: [41:22] Dave. Dave: [41:23] My TV movie is called Aces High. It is a team up of every aviation centric action show that I remember. Sarah: [41:31] So we got Airwolf. I like it. Dave: [41:33] We got Blue Thunder. We got Baba Black Sheep, a.k.a. Black Sheep Squadron. Tara: [41:38] Yes. Dave: [41:38] We've got Chopper One with Dirt Benedict from the 70s. We've got Riptide because they had that giant cargo helicopter with the weird face painted on the front that is still stuck on my brain. And Tales of the Gold Monkey. All those shows combining into a TV movie. And we're going to add Pan Am into that just for girls in short skirts, you know, to juice the numbers. Tara: [42:00] Take that, wings. Dave: [42:02] Yeah. All right. Here comes your Ask Ask ESG question for you to answer on our Discord. It comes from NES Excite Mike. What is your Jeopardy contestant interview anecdote? So you're on Jeopardy. You're being interviewed by whoever's doing that show these days. Tara: [42:19] Can. Dave: [42:19] Thank you. What are you going to say to make it interesting? Put your answer in the Ask Ask ESG channel and Discord, and we'll be back soon to pick a winner. Dave: [42:29] It is time for the extra hot great Tiny Cannon presenting today, Severity Bunting. Sarah: [42:36] Hello. Today I am nominating Lane Price's New York Mets pennant from Mad Men for induction into the props department of the Extra Hot Great Tiny Cannon. Lane's pennant, with its old-school, almost medieval, timesy lettering, makes its first appearance in Season 4, Episode 6, Waldorf Stories. And in addition to being a fantastic mid-century production design find of a piece with all the bar-top lighters and clackety electric typewriters on the show, it is a symbol of Lane's hopes for his time in New York City, a new team born from the ashes of two old teams, a team the city fell in love with because of and in spite of its historic incompetence. That flailing also ties the pennant metaphorically to Lane. While we see it periodically after Waldorf's stories, it gets a particularly grim turn in season five, episode 12, Commissions and fees. This is the episode in which Lane dies of suicide, seeing no other way out of the forgery mess he has embroiled himself in at the agency. When his body is discovered, hanging from his office door after a weekend has gone by, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, orders the door forced open and Lane's body cut down, and the Met's pennant hangs inappropriately bright and garishly orange in the background, literally the colors of caution and depression. That's the blue. Sarah: [44:03] When next we see it, it's season seven, episode four, Monolith. Don is increasingly frustrated by the way the agency is continuing to sideline him after his, quote, sabbatical. He happens to find the pennant under the radiator in his office, which used to be Lane's office. Don stares at it ruefully and then stuffs it in the trash. But soon it's back up in its old spot behind the office door, overseeing the couch where Don is taking a power nap break during a day drunk. Or he is at least until Freddie Rumson, Joel Murray, arrives to escort him to a Mets game or to bed, one hopes. Clip one. It's all right, sweetheart. He's expecting me. Sarah: [45:03] Mets. Great idea. Can you walk? By this time, the symbolism has shifted somewhat. but in the show's timeline, it is now 1969. Nice. The year the Miracle Mets won everything after a mediocre start to their season. That heady climb up the standings is not underway yet at this point, and neither is Don's return to form. But I do like the pennant as a figurative parallel to its various owners' fortunes. And I think that's part of why it belongs in the tiny canon. Another reason is that it's not required for you to see it as a metaphor. It can just Be What It Is, an exemplar of mid-century design as acquired by the props department of Mad Men. You can find it visually pleasing and let the myriad other commentators make connections between the team's status and that of the show's characters. I will provide a link in the show notes from MLB.com. And you can also just use it to feel nostalgic for Lane Price, a wonderfully dimensioned character perfectly realized by Richard Harris's performance and, in my opinion, gone too soon from the show. But however exegetical you do or do not want to get with it, I think Lane's Mets pennant belongs on the wall of the tiny cannon. Dave: [46:13] Thank you, Sarah. Tara, why don't you start us off? Tara: [46:16] Yeah, this is a great pick. I hadn't thought about caution and depression. That makes so much sense. But it also, I mean, my, you know, my only reference for baseball, as you know, other than facts, I know, which is who a Bart Giamatti was. Just say that for the record. Lady Rest. Is, you know, the impression that the various teams give, like, in culture. You know, there's the part in, and in contrast, particularly the Mets to the Yankees, for example, another 60s set piece of art, Catch Me If You Can. There's the whole, the runner with Frank and his dad where he's like, you know, why the Yankees always win? Because everyone gets so distracted by the pinstripes or whatever the line is. And it's sort of like the Mets, in our day at least, are certainly more of the underdogs, even though I think they're as winning as the Yankees-ish, right? I'm getting out over my skis. Sarah: [47:09] As we record this, almost. Yes. Tara: [47:12] And so it's that that was the choice for like Lane's team, such as it was. It's hard to track, you know, whether that was something he really stuck with or just something that was like a symbol of him trying to embrace American culture and like fit in with the other American business dudes at the office and stuff. Like that that was the thing that he was sort of like, this is me being normal. This is me clinging to to a piece of americana and for the way it sort of resurfaces over time especially like falling under the radiator and like just being essentially trash in don's office when he's at his lowest point is it's very poignant and very sad it's like they they really got a lot out of one little pennant so um yeah excellent choice and a lot to think about thank you. Dave: [48:03] I'm going to make this short because, one, I'm pretty sure we bought that pennant or something very, very close to it for Sarah D. Bunsing once upon a time. Don't read into it. Sarah: [48:12] Sarah. Dave: [48:13] But whenever I see that pennant or something very close to it, my mind immediately goes to Lane Price and Mad Men here. So, like, the power of the usage of this pennant in that show, like, just makes me think of these terrible events in Mad Men whenever I think about the Mets. So, good job, Mad Men. Bad job, baseball. But great presentation. I think you're absolutely right, Sarah. Let's put this to the official vote. Tara, tiny cannon worthy? Tara: [48:41] For sure. Dave: [48:42] Me too. So the Mets pennant from Mad Men and Lane Price's office, you are hereby inducted into the tiny props department cannon. Dave: [48:54] Americans love a winner. Yeah. And will not tolerate a loser. Nope. It is time to discover the not-quite-winners and losers of the week. My not-quite-winner of the week is G.T. Carber. Who is G.T. Carber, you ask? Well, they are the author of the book Myrtle. Which is a collection of murder mystery puzzles, you know, like daily little brain teaser, who did it and that kind of stuff, logic puzzles. That has been optioned for a scripted series. Good for them. Tara: [49:25] Yeah. Dave: [49:25] But have we really come so far in the, I need a brand behind my project or I can't sell it that you have to basically option the equivalent of a Mad Libs book from our childhood in order to become a series? Like, can't you just do something where it's crazy? No, it has to be Mad Libs the series and all this nonsense. I figured that's where we are in the culture. So good for GT. Yeah. But I don't really understand why that needed to be optioned for a series. Tara: [49:52] Okay, but now that you... Sarah: [49:53] We'll see if it gets to series. Dave: [49:54] Right, but there's no continuity, like, because I looked it up. So this person basically does New York Times-esque puzzles on their site, like Myrtle.com or whatever it is, that are just like logic puzzles. So-and-so said this and they did this, but, you know, their wife said this and this, and then you have to answer at the bottom, like, you know, Who's the killer? And, you know, all these sort of like clue-esque, you know, apparatus. Tara: [50:17] Now that you've said that, though, about Mad Libs, I feel like there's a Bandersnatch opportunity of like you fill out a Mad Libs and then it generates a trailer for an episode. Sarah: [50:27] And here we are just giving that away. Dave: [50:30] If they could take that technology, that idea of Bandersnatch and either inject it with a more decision tree system or like even an AI system somehow. Like this actually feels like it could be an AI, like actual useful thing for AI where it is like an old text adventure game from the 80s and so far that you can experiment with what you can do inside of a room. And sometimes it says, I don't know what you mean. But sometimes you're like, oh, yeah, I will climb the chandelier. Tara: [50:57] Why not? Dave: [50:58] And then like AI can generate the results for you in some manner. That would like be novel. I don't know if it would be entertaining and last the ages, but like neither is Bandersnatch. Tara: [51:09] No. It's true. There's someone I follow on Instagram just gets his son, who I think is four, to give him prompts. It's sort of like AI-assisted axe cop, where he's like, just tell me something you want this program to draw. And his son will be like, it's a skeleton playing with his trucks. And then he's like posted on Instagram what a generator. Yeah, that's the same kind of thing I had in mind with that. Dave: [51:33] All right. Not quite loser of the week, Drew Barrymore, who's denied screeners of Yellowstone, even though she and Yellowstone share a parent company. I just want to say, Drew Barrymore, A, nobody likes human anymore, so maybe that's it. B, welcome to the club. Tara: [51:48] Well, C, what a loser. You have to try harder. Be a squeaky wheel. How do you think I get shit? Sarah: [51:54] Yeah. Tara: [51:54] I have four screeners for Dune Legacy. They weren't just handing them out. I had to ask. Dave: [52:00] It's not the name of the show. Don't write it. Don't write in. we know. Tara: [52:03] Dune Legacy? Yes it is. Dave: [52:04] Isn't it Dune Prophecy? Tara: [52:06] No. Dave: [52:07] Are you sure? Tara: [52:08] No. Now that you've said that. No, I am. I looked it up. I had to find it on the press site. Sarah: [52:15] More like don't legacy. Am I right? I don't know if I'm right. Don't care. Tara: [52:19] Wait. Now I'm not sure. Dave: [52:22] This is very exciting. Who will be right? Who will be wrong? Legacy versus prophecy. Tara: [52:27] It's prophecy. Dave wins. Dave: [52:35] Who is your not quite winner of the week? Sarah Dima, I think. Sarah: [52:38] Dave, just kidding. It's actually Emily Nussbaum, our esteemed colleague, whose nonfiction book, Cue the Sun! Exclamation point, colon, The Invention of Reality TV, is being developed as a docuseries that did make me kind of hope that James Ponowozik's audience of one would be developed as something, but I suspect that, given regime change, that's no longer possible. A girl can dream. However, congratulations to Emily. my not quite loser is critics hoping to go to pasadena in january you're gonna have to do it on your own dime and time because the tca has canceled winter tour due to contraction in the industry and this is like across the entire like scripted unscripted you. Dave: [53:25] Should explain what that is for people that aren't in the industry. Sarah: [53:28] The television critics association excuse me So, yeah, the fun in the ballroom sun is not happening this winter. And my condolences to my fellow commentators. Tara. Tara: [53:42] My not-crype winner of the week is Steve Conrad. This is the creator of Patriot. His latest show is going to be a limited series called DTF St. Louis. David Harbour from Stranger Things and Jason Bateman will both be in it. This is as far as i know his first show since perpetual grace limited which was on epics before it was mgm plus a show that dave and i watched all of and i'm gonna say was a huge fall off from patriot which i thought was really good perpetual grace limited made me think this is a guy who is more interested in like sandbox world building than he is in like telling a coherent story it was a vibe show it was a vibe show for sure and i was. Dave: [54:23] Into it for the first couple episodes, waiting for it to change gears and turn into the vibes, then become the story. Tara: [54:31] Yes. Dave: [54:31] But it didn't do that. It was just sort of like, oh, just like off kilter all the time. And it didn't really like, I don't care about any of these characters, which was the opposite of Patriot, which was like, why do I care about these characters? Oh, my God, I care about these characters now. How did you do that? Tara: [54:46] Yes. Yeah. It's sort of like there's shows sometimes where you're like, oh, I wish we could spend an hour with this person. But like every episode of the show was like that. I was like, I already don't know who all of these other people are. Like, just get get to a plot at some point. But anyway, all that said, I hope he has taken the several years since that show to reflect and, you know, revise. Dave: [55:08] Yeah. Tara: [55:09] And that this will be a little bit more straight ahead, let's say. By not quite loser of the week is mtv canada officially being taken off the air so i mean sub winner much music undefeated moses neimer still holding on yeah mtv canada was a sort of semi-licensed i mean it was like a canadian company operated it wasn't even like a one-to-one to mtv america it was a different it was a separate thing it. Dave: [55:37] Was sort of like owning a mcdonald's franchise. Tara: [55:39] Exactly yeah um but it did show a lot of the mtv programming that before the launch of the channel we never got to see it's it's where we first got to see like true life and jackass and stuff. Tara: [55:51] Like that it was it launched when my sister was living with us in toronto and we watched it a lot um so she was the first person i texted when i saw that he was like r.i.p. Dave: [56:00] But it's important to remember back then in canada like american shows if they weren't on networks either never came or would be significantly delayed, like six months, a year later. You would never be on the same viewing schedule as your American friends. Tara: [56:16] Yeah, rarely. No, it's true. Tara: [56:25] Welcome in, grandpas. You missed a bunch. We talked about Randolph Manteeth, Randolph Manteeth, among many other topics in the part of the episode that you missed. So as ever go to extrahotgreat.com slash club to learn about the perks that have been unlocked since your time at the two dollar level the perks that are yet to be unlocked and we welcome in the new members that joined us this week we're thrilled to have you here hello. Tara: [56:55] Today's topic comes from me, and it is somebody feed Harrison Ford. And here's what we're discussing. In the first season of the Apple TV Plus comedy Shrinking, which I had to marathon a couple of weeks ago for Cracked, there's a scene in which Paul, the character played by Harrison Ford, eats his first ever pouch of fun dip. Basically, he is counseling the Jason Segel character's daughter. Sort of in secret, her mother has died and they don't really want to tell Jimmy, the Jason Segel guy, what they're doing. And so they're doing this very unofficially and she pays him in candy. And so that's why she brings him fun dip and he has it for the first time. But as you can imagine, this is not a comfortable experience for a man who at the time of filming was over 80 years old. It did get me thinking, though, what other incongruous foods would we most want to see current day Harrison Ford try to eat on TV? in what context and why and how do we think it would go. And I've asked everyone to bring three dishes and projects real, as in he could actually be in them or not, or imagined. Sarah, what is your first show and dish? Sarah: [58:02] My first show and dish is Harrison Ford in the background of a shot on The Wire. One of those shots where they're having a sort of very important distribution meeting at a crab shack, one of the places with the oiled tablecloth and the literal mallets and shit. So he's like two tables behind them, almost out of focus, but not quite. And he is absolutely going to fucking town with a crab mallet that he, A, brought from home, took out of a case, like a pool cue, and assembled at the table. And then he's also wearing a cloth bib that he brought from home that is like chin to crotch and is like hand embroidered. There's no like plastic. Shit for him. Ally McBeal, like, made this thing, and there's, like, little pockets on the front, and it says, like, Crabby Daddy on it. Doesn't matter. Here's the point. Han Solo is wailing on a table of crabs, you know, regarding Henry two tables over is freaking out. Sure. On some crab legs. Dave. Dave: [59:14] All right. In the final season of Stranger Things, I've never watched any more than the first two episodes of Stranger Things. Don't at me if this makes no sense. In the final season of Stranger Things, Eleven's dad, Harrison Ford, comes to town to pick her up. Like, maybe he forgot her there and then, like, he comes back. Tara: [59:31] Yeah. Dave: [59:31] They go to the diner on their way out of town and he's served one of those milkshakes that's got, like, so many cookies and pieces of fruit and extra toppings stuck in it. You cannot eat nor drink it without major irreversible surgery. What the fuck is this? The sheriff comes over and tells lunch is the time for milkshakes and contemplation, to which Harrison Ford says, it's time for fuck and off. And then that's it. Sarah: [59:58] Woodwatch. Tara: [59:59] Well, I didn't go far from my first one. In a future episode of Shrinking, I want Alice, this Jimmy's daughter, to bring Paul a nerd rope because I want to see Harrison Ford eat a nerd rope. If you don't know what this is i mean they're they're nerds are now more known for the gummy clusters which uh we had on a recent trip and they are real good they're nice and sour and they're gummy and you can't eat more than a couple because they are too intense but the nerds rope is like exactly what you think it is it's like a long gummy thing with nerds all like crusted on it and so eating it it's it's almost it's like biting into you know a hose or something like it's tough And I just think it would be hilarious to see Harrison Ford just chomping on this, not being able to get all the way through it, getting it stuck in his teeth, and yet still being intrigued and not being able to stop eating. I think he would enjoy it in a very perverse way. Dave: [1:00:57] When you said get it stuck in his, I immediately thought you were going to say earring for some reason. There's a nerd joke that manages to thread through his earring. He's trying to eat it. It's like, what the fuck is this? Tara: [1:01:07] It's not off. It's not off the table. Yeah. Sarah. Sarah: [1:01:12] Okay, so I know that I've been heavy on the Mad Men content this week, and I'm not stopping now. He was stunt cast as a Brock's Candy executive on Mad Men, to whom a meeting has been granted as a favor to someone, probably Pete Campbell Compromat of some sort. He's in charge of the circus peanuts account he brings a giant bag of them dumps them out on the table it's sterling cooper the team is urged to try at least one and he is enthusing about how realistic they look i don't know if you've seen a circus peanut lately and i don't advise you to seek one out for this but what they really look like is dicks so during this meeting harrison Ford's character is like chomping on a circus peanut while the camera is fetishistically emphasizing how much it looks like a tiny, squishy cock. And the entire team is absolutely horrified. Cut to Burt Cooper rocking and holding himself on his yoga mat in his office. Dave: [1:02:15] Why does tiny, squishy cock sound like the evil Star Trek universe version of this podcast? Extra hot gray versus tiny, squishy cock. One has a goatee, one doesn't. Sarah: [1:02:26] Put a goatee and reshape the tile, the brand tile, as a little circus piece. Dave: [1:02:32] Yeah. Harrison Ford is baby Harrison Ford on an episode of Muppet Babies, where he is dropped off to the nanny during a family emergency. Surrounded by weird animal babies, he gets Lunchables for lunch. What the fuck is this, says Harrison Ford, baby. Then all the different Muppets surround him, show him their favorite ways to stack the ingredients to which Harrison Ford says, Who gives a shit? This isn't food. And then goes into the corner and takes a gummy. Tara: [1:03:00] First of all, sidebar, when I went to pick up the dogs at daycare yesterday, there was a pet hall of shame sign for Nola. Sarah: [1:03:07] Oh my God, I saw that on Instagram. Tara: [1:03:09] Who ate 15 weed gummies at home yesterday. So, first of all, relatable. Sarah: [1:03:14] I mean, who amongst us, Nola, truly. Tara: [1:03:16] Yes, laissez les bon temps rouler, indeed. Sarah: [1:03:20] Yeah, bonne chance. Tara: [1:03:22] In 1923, the actual Yellowstone prequel that Harrison Ford is actually in, his guy, did not look up his name, don't care, gets stranded in a snowstorm and is forced to eat an uncooked pheasant, which we see him do for real in an unbroken camera shot, and then later get, you know, violently ill from every end, because you can't just do that. Sarah. Sarah: [1:03:47] All right. Wrapping this up with a little more stunt casting, this could actually still happen, I suppose. This time, he's playing Uncle Jimmy's friend, Big Jeffy, on the bear. They're visiting the kitchen before service, which that night will feature some sort of repellent wasabi foam or aioli or whatever. But for right now, the wasabi is just sitting in a giant bowl in its original form, looking a lot like guacamole. This happened to a friend. While Jimmy and the computer are busting Carmi's balls about expenses, Big Jeff fishes a breadstick out of a nearby glass and heaps it inches high with wasabi, eats it, immediately realizes his mistake but can't admit it, and then is rendered speechless by fiery pain. And at a moment of awkward silence in the financing conversation, shrieks in agony and runs out into the back alley to stick his head under the hose. I'm not sure why I'm torturing him in this manner, so hopefully he finds some justice with Dave. Dave: [1:04:51] Harrison Ford is the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration called in for an emergency meeting due to the viral information surrounding Coca-Cola and Pop Rocks, a polling problem for the Bartlett administration on the West Wing. In the conference, he has no idea what they're talking about. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, says Harrison Ford. Sam Seaborn slides a package of Pop Rocks across the table. Try it. What the fuck is this? It's pop rocks. You put them in your mouth. And they pop, finishes Josh. Who cares? American voters, CJ intones. Harrison Ford angrily rips the package open and empties the contents into his mouth. Is that it? Why the fuck am I here? At that moment, the popping kicks in. A giant smile grows on this sour man's face. These, these are good. Tara: [1:05:44] Of all the things, my God. All right, for my last one, you know, century eggs. This is the Chinese delicacy where you age an egg for weeks or months or a while. Dave: [1:05:58] And it turns black and gelatinous. Tara: [1:06:00] It turns black and gelatinous, sort of a greenish gray. So Harrison Ford is going to play the Chinese ambassador in the third season of The Diplomat. And he's going to eat one of those on camera. And I don't think he's going to like it. Dave: [1:06:12] What the fuck is this egg? Tara: [1:06:13] What the fuck is this egg? Dave: [1:06:16] And that is it for this episode of Extra, Extra Hot Grade. We discussed the November 4th inning pool episode of Emergency! Before answering your burning ask, EHG questions like, what are renaming networks to and who is your EHG hosting sub? Sarah got Lane's pennant into the EHG prop tiny canon. We celebrated those who weren't quite the best and worst of the week and wrapped it all up with some suggestions for foods for Harrison Ford to eat for the first time on television. Next up is St. Dennis Medical with Stephanie Early Green on EHG Prime. Remember, we're listening. I am David T. Cole, and on behalf of Harrison Ford, what the fuck is this? Tara: [1:07:04] Tari Riano. Lick and dip forever. Dave: [1:07:07] And Sarah D. Bunting. Sarah: [1:07:10] Guaranteed to have the time of your life. Dave: [1:07:12] Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time. right here on Extra Extra Hot Great.