It’s a holiday TV gift guide, with an EHG twist! Your co-hosts put actual holiday shopping on hold to fantasy-shop TV shows, matching IRL gift recipients with the things we wish we could pull out of our screens to give them. We’re hanging answers to your Ask EHG questions by the chimney with care, including TV characters we’d house-swap with and memories of breaking news. Bezoar Laura hopes we’ll back up her Tiny Canon presentation of a legendary tree-lighting, and we’re listing Not Quite 11 porn-y titles and memorable TV gifts. Kari Race looks back at an Andy Williams special, and we celebrate 100 years of Dick Van Dyke’s existence. Deck the halls with an all-new EEHG!
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Dave:
[0:00] Rolling rolling okay then i will just uh add something very quickly okay here we go, what if i forget to what if i just don't take it out now, This is the Extra Extra Hot Crate Podcast, episode 386 for the December 13, 2025 weekend. I am Box of Turtles with hastily written to-from-tag David T. Cole, and I'm here with last-minute gift certificate Sarah D. Bunting.
Sarah:
[0:41] Phew.
Dave:
[0:42] And heartwarming thank you note Tara Ariano.
Tara:
[0:45] Aw.
Dave:
[0:52] Yeah it just occurred to me tara wasn't there for you old cute clip that was the one where she was absent.
Tara:
[0:57] You're talking about.
Dave:
[0:58] Uh some hr puff and stuff.
Tara:
[1:00] Oh sure yes anyways welcome to extra extra hot great for another weekend thank you so much for your support we're so happy you're here and we are doing a tv gift guide what's that everyone does tv gift guides true but they do ones that are going to actually be useful to you in your shopping. And this one is not. Whether you personally partake or not, you can't deny. We're heading into what is traditionally a gift-giving season with Adam Mind. We're taking a break from our actual shopping to fantasy shop TV shows. We're each arriving for the discussion with four potential gift recipients from our lives and the gifts that we wish we could pluck out of our TVs to give them. Why don't we go Sarah, Dave, me. Sarah, who is your first recipient and your first gift?
Sarah:
[1:44] Well, my first recipient is David T. Cole. And although he's not really a hat guy, he is, I feel, a Chester Arthur as played by Nick Offerman guy. And he is about to have to get drunk for an episode of this year podcast. So I will be giving him Chester Arthur's two hats from Death by Lightning stacked together. One of them will be filled as follows. Dave, could you please play the clip? Oh, my God.
Tara:
[2:24] Music fighting sausages, dang i.
Sarah:
[2:31] Mean there will be vegetarian sausages but we can make that work to sausages um anyway happy christmas dave.
Tara:
[2:39] Thanks amazing dave you're next.
Dave:
[2:41] All right. Well, I will share the Christmas spirit and get Tara in on the action. So these are my gifts to Tara. As mentioned, I wrote it down at the time. I jotted it down thinking, that'll be a good gift. I'll never get her. That's the weird white greyhound statue piece of art that Joey bought for his solo apartment and friends. And then I think ends up back in their shared community after.
Tara:
[3:05] Correct.
Dave:
[3:05] Weird little piece of 80s design. I feel like it's like something that came out of a, what's that guy?
Tara:
[3:11] Patrick Nagel. It's like a 3D Patrick Nagel.
Dave:
[3:14] Exactly. Yeah. That's exactly what it reminds me of. So that is your first gift. You can put wherever you want.
Tara:
[3:19] Great.
Dave:
[3:20] Just not in the living room. The second thing I'm getting you is the tandem two-story inflatable aquatic floating escape bicycle from the end of the premiere episode of Star Maidens.
Sarah:
[3:33] Wow.
Dave:
[3:34] So we can spend more time together. Third thing I'm getting you is a fantasma crayon. That is the clear crayon actually pitched by Julio Torres at the intro to that show.
Tara:
[3:44] Love it.
Dave:
[3:45] To Crayola. That represents the emotional distance between us. So I can get you one of those.
Tara:
[3:50] Yes.
Dave:
[3:51] And finally, I am going to convert the walk-in closet used to be a spare room weirdness we have in our house and converting that into the Jackal's secret getaway room. So you can not only have a place for all your shoes and all your clothes, but your passport collection, your sniper rifles, your wads of foreign paper money. It's also because you are now an international assassin stocked with snacks and treats from across the world. So you may learn their chocolatey customs and blend in perfectly before you get to kill somebody.
Tara:
[4:27] Can I just say that that closet does currently include two different nations passports and a different Canadian money. so and.
Dave:
[4:36] A sniper rifle.
Tara:
[4:37] Half the way there just just don't tell all your secrets all right so since we're, Each doing the gift for the next person in the chain. I'll go with Sarah. Many years ago, dear listener, there was a show on SyFy called Helix, which Sarah covered. I think partly, but not solely, because it featured Silver Fox's Billy Campbell and Steven Weber. Weber's character unfortunately dies, which the audience finds out because there's a shot of his disembodied head and we don't use it that much anymore. But Helix Head Weber became a reaction shot. We would send to each other in our chats on Skype and later on Slack. Hello, future scholars. So I'm going to give Sarah the helix head, and I'm also going to arrange with her husband, Dan, to periodically move it around their house so that it can surprise and perhaps later.
Dave:
[5:21] For the holidays, like Elf on a Shelf.
Tara:
[5:23] Exactly. Put it on top of the tree. I don't know.
Dave:
[5:26] Head out of bed.
Tara:
[5:27] Just when she's forgotten about it, much as, by the way, Dave and I do with the Flukeman X-Wild cards that were in a pack that Sarah gifted Dave a while back. We had a brief cold snap last week. Dave dug out his Baja hoodie and And found the flute band card I had put in the pocket last year. So that was a long simmering one. Anyway, Sarah, enjoy the Helix Head. Merry Christmas.
Sarah:
[5:52] Thank you so much. I am going to return the favor and get Tara a gift from Gidget. I will try to resist and probably fail buying Tara any of Gidget's many stripy tops. I feel like Tara has enough stripy tops. There is one three-color boatneck. I might not mind for myself, speaking of future scholars. What I would actually like to get her is the sky blue GE porticolor TV Gidget had in her room for a while. You can really disappear down an Etsy rabbit hole looking for those from the mid-60s. So many clever people have turned them into planters, but other clever people have also fixed them for sale. And yeah, mid-century portable television design was really something. We've we've lost that as a culture i mean i love watching tv on my phone but the ge like surf brand porticolor tv so beautiful it really was yeah i mean also they cost 200 to ship anywhere but worth it i feel yeah.
Tara:
[6:59] Well thank you dave.
Sarah:
[7:01] Dave.
Dave:
[7:01] I will now bring my giant sack of presents over to sarah's house for all these things sarah's getting first thing i thought of i don't really know if it's like when you would be able to wear this it's very opinionated i'm getting you the just a pinch cabana crop shirt that had a crab on it from the i think first episode of poker face in the second season charlie kale's got it it's got a giant crab on it yep all the details around the sleeve ends are like lime wedges and pieces of parsley it's got red piping all over the uh sides. I don't know. It feels like when you're going to be some friends from college, you would stick on this shirt. All right. Number two, I can't afford the whole display, Sarah, but I can get you probably one display size of Beverly cats from Hannibal. You can probably like 75% of it is doable. You can probably pick the slice you want.
Sarah:
[8:00] Thank you. Delicious.
Dave:
[8:02] I'm giving you pick of anything from the traveling salesman kit of the old man from the What You Need episode of The Twilight Zone. If you may remember, he's got this briefcase. Doesn't know what you want, but the bag knows what you need. And he opens it up and Sarah picks a pack of peanut M&Ms and it just turns out to be the bag of M&Ms he was keeping in there for a later snack and you picked it. So nothing really happens, but it was a nice exchange. And, you know, he was a nice little man.
Sarah:
[8:30] I do like a peanut M&M. Thank you for remembering.
Dave:
[8:32] And finally, Sarah D. Bunting, I bought you a small plot in the valley and the mountains of beyond for you to journey to next year where you will transform into a tree to spend eternity. Sarah D. Bunting, your 400th birthday is approaching. Better to face it now.
Sarah:
[8:49] Oh, no. Or should I say, oh, gnome.
Tara:
[8:53] Oh, gnome, yeah. Dave, I think my pick for his gift is the best one, so I'm going to do that one last and jump instead to my mother, Carol Ariano. For the first several years of my life, she was a single mom it was just the two of us and even though she was a broke student for a lot of that time she would take me to every disney movie in the theater she bought me the tie-in book and record sets which is how i learned to read but tv was also part of our cultural diet and my earliest tv memory is that on sunday nights i would have a bath and she would do my nails in front of the muppet show on cbc, This is my first awareness of a TV show being the thing that you could enjoy at the same time every week. So with that in mind, I'm getting my mother Miss Piggy's vanity from her dressing room on the show. It's got a huge giant mirror with lights all around. There's like a makeup table with a flowery skirt, like one of those little sort of Frenchie bistro chairs with like a heart and wire on the back. Does not match her aesthetic now at all. But she and my dad can just deal with it because that's what she's getting in my fantasy. this Christmas. Back to Sarah.
Sarah:
[9:58] It is time for an experience gift. My niece, Jane, is getting a playdate in Los Angeles at Morgan Guillory's house for a few reasons. Poteet's is a little old for playdates, I guess, but she's around Elliot's age. That's the bookish middle kid. Poteet's is not as intense about her areas of lore, but she's super easygoing around that kind of thing, and she would be super into spending time with Ava and Morgan. Jane is the younger, but her older sibling is a boy. And so she doesn't have that older sister thing going on. She would love to go thrifting with them, which would be the real gift. And for me also, let's face it, I want to know where Morgan gets all her shirts and all those miniskirts with a lot of them have pockets. So I'm into it. And actually, Jane is getting a version of this like IRL. We're just going to go to that jeans place.
Tara:
[10:56] Ooh.
Sarah:
[10:58] And a bunch of people in that branch of the fam are getting some of those jeans from, what is the name of it?
Tara:
[11:03] The Consistency Project. You should explain what it is because other people might want to buy gift cards from there too as well.
Sarah:
[11:09] You get fitted for a pair of vintage jeans and they just bring out a bunch of different brands that they have. And then they revise the inseam if you need it. They also have a bunch of vintage over-dyed Stan Ray pants, which I also got a pair of those when I was there. But the whole experience was really fun, and both pairs that I got are so comfy. Buntings can be a little tricky to fit, so I feel like both Jane and Dave Jr., my brother, might benefit from a trip to that.
Tara:
[11:37] Fun.
Sarah:
[11:38] But Fantasyland, where money is no object, let's fucking go to LA and hang out with the Guillory family. They seem pretty cool.
Tara:
[11:44] Totally. Totally.
Dave:
[11:45] My third recipient is all the people at the coffee hut I go to a few times each week to get a coffee. I'm getting them these four things from television. Number one, the cornballer, so they can sell cornballs. Number two, malk, now with vitamin R, or the real malk that they apparently have now at stores, which is like, I don't know, sawdust milk. Why don't even know what they're doing now?
Tara:
[12:07] No idea.
Sarah:
[12:08] Sawdust milk.
Dave:
[12:09] Number three, they're going to get them the juice loosener, so they can start providing smoothies like Jamba Juice. And of course, for those little displays where you can buy your nutrition bars and your Rice Krispie treats, nuts and gum.
Tara:
[12:22] Good old nuts and gum.
Sarah:
[12:24] Good old nuts and gum. Love it.
Tara:
[12:26] Next on my list is my younger sister, Leah. We are seven and a half years apart in age, so it took a long time before we wanted to watch the same shows. And our parents did not really care to mediate our arguments about TV. So depending on the time slot, when we were watching, this was, of course, before DVRs. there were a few shows that were neither of our first choices, but that we would both compromise on. One of which was Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? And at the time that it premiered, I was a senior in high school, so I would front like this was a big hardship rather than just go do something else. But invariably, I would get sucked in. And as some listeners might remember, the bonus round was a map of a continent, and the player got clues about places Carmen went, and then they had to go put a light where they thought it was on the map. And geography was not being taught the way it used to be, which meant that I, grade 12, and she, grade 4, were evenly matched playing along and probably still would be. We are both very smart about some things, not about geography. All this by way of saying my gift to her is going to be a where in the world is Carmen San Diego map of Europe for her backyard. Because A, she would think it was funny. And B, I actually think that would make a pretty cool patio. Like if you get it out of that sort of rubbery stuff, that would look really neat. So that's my gift for Leah. Back to Sarah.
Sarah:
[13:39] All right. My final recipient is twofold. My husband and also everyone else who's married to a car guy. I am shopping one of the car showrooms on Mad Men to get a Chevy Chevelle for my husband, one of the vintage ones, either from the sixth season episode where Don and Ted Chugaga functionally merge their agencies to co-pitch Chevrolet, or from the series finale when Don is driving all over creation like a mad man. The ladder car has that grimed up used look and the double stripe on the hood, which I feel like is the classic profile of the Chevelle. Dan drove one from the 60s. I'm not sure what model year, but I am sure that I spent like an hour on the internet movie car database, which exists. So this is where the second part of the gift comes in. Dear listener, if you are married to a car guy or gal who gets all bent out of shape when a show set in 1971 is using 1973 model years. This is my gift to you. Point them at it. Enjoy the silence. IMDCB.org. You are welcome. Merry Christmas. Back to you dave.
Dave:
[14:58] All right my final recipient is our two dogs so what i did first is i rounded up jerry from tom and jerry bert raccoon from the raccoons rocky from rocky bullwinkle and all of the wonder pets and i put him in the backyard for sandy to uh meet them menace and then for nolton who probably would hang back wouldn't want any part of that i'm getting him a moist maker turkey sandwich from France.
Sarah:
[15:25] Aww.
Dave:
[15:27] He's eating the sandwich. All you see through the patio windows is like fluff and feathers and shit. Viscera flying up. That's how the episode ends.
Sarah:
[15:36] Viscera. Merry Christmas.
Dave:
[15:40] Tara.
Tara:
[15:41] All right. My final gift is the one I'm most proud of, but I also am afraid it's going to make Dave sad because it's not real. So I think everyone who watches The Great British Bake Off has had the experience of feeling tormented by watching bakers create a pan of millionaire shortbread or a lemon and passion fruit pie and not having anything even kind of dessert-like in the house. I definitely know Dave has, and that is why I'm gifting him the non-existent Bake Off Treat of the Week Club every Monday. You get an email with the three bakes from the previous episode, so you don't get spoiled if it's the premiere. Your options are from the previous season finale. Plus a standard choice of chocolate tort with raspberries, red velvet cream sandwiches, or cream and jam filled biscuits as seen in the opening credits. It's that you could get to choose one treat from the list and the ones for the credits are in there every week for whenever they make like meat pies or lardy cake or something unappealing. And then that treat that you select, that was a real one.
Dave:
[16:38] Okay.
Sarah:
[16:39] Yeah, it was.
Tara:
[16:40] It gets delivered Thursday night so that when you watch Bake Off on Friday, you're never unprepared. And just as a preview, I'm going to also get them the Hitchcock and Scully calorie bomb of the week club because they're always eating something that looks disgustingly delicious on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. like burritos, pizza, french fries, street dogs. And even though that food is at the opposite end of the elegance scale, it is also very appealing when you watch it on TV. So Dave, that is what I wish I could give you, but I can't.
Dave:
[17:06] Yeah, that's a little sad, but that was a really good gift. Thank you.
Tara:
[17:09] Thank you, guys. Merry Christmas.
Sarah:
[17:11] Thanks.
Dave:
[17:13] And here's our gift to you, dear listeners. It's the theme to Ask EHG, the segment where you ask EHG things. Nailed it Yep.
Sarah:
[17:25] Is it work?
Dave:
[17:41] All right, we're just going to get right into your questions. First one from VH4's Fantasy Cast, one of your favorite good wife slash good fight guest stars as a murderer on Elsbeth. Tara?
Tara:
[17:55] I mean, conceivably, any of these could just play their good wife or good fight roles on Elsbeth since they're in the same universe. But I guess the show's creators already don't care about that, so neither will I. Instead, I'm going to say, let's get Michael Urie, who played an NSA analyst in two episodes, in there as his younger book agent character, meaning from the character he played on the TV show Younger, and also have him be a murderer, just because that character always seemed like he was one notch away from being a murderer as a book agent, as it is. Sarah?
Sarah:
[18:27] Martha Plimpton as her character, she murdered a murderer client, and now it's a whole baby Hitler ethical question, and I can't wait to see how it unfolds.
Tara:
[18:36] Dave?
Dave:
[18:37] My pick is Michael Sheen as a manic serial killer that kills multiple people in isolation in front of Elspeth somehow, daring her to then prove it to everybody's satisfaction. He's basically playing Nero from his role in ancient Rome, except he's in New York City.
Tara:
[18:53] Yeah.
Dave:
[18:53] Okay, thanks.
Tara:
[18:54] Love it.
Dave:
[19:02] Jovial Jen, you've been cast on Why Swap Real Housewives Edition. Who would you like to switch with and what rule would you make them follow? Tara?
Tara:
[19:11] I'm not doing any research on this, so my only housewives I know are from the new cast of The Real Housewives of New York City that everyone hated. I'm going to go with Erin because I think she's the one who would irritate Dave the least. I assume he has to be here for this and I don't want to torment him. And the rule that she has to follow is that she has to schedule my DVR recordings every day like I do. Sarah.
Sarah:
[19:37] Margaret Josephs of Real Housewives of New Jersey. I think we're the most likely to get along with each other's husbands, to Tara's point. And she has to sit on all my podcasts. But since she fully will not agree to do the entire slate, I will, quote, negotiate that down to Marge and Sarah talk about songs where she has to help me rank Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet album.
Dave:
[19:59] Nice. Seth has our next question. If you had to wear a Daft Punk dead mouse style helmet for a full calendar year, what design would you choose for yourself? Sarah?
Sarah:
[20:09] Unk over here did not know this was even a thing. So I'm going to go with the Encore model, which is black with red neon piping on the edges of it, I guess. I don't know these things. I'm old. Dave?
Dave:
[20:21] Well, if I had to wear something in that style, it would be the third and most giant shrunken head from Mario's Magic Shop in Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Okay i mean.
Tara:
[20:33] The daft punk i didn't realize there were different ones so i just let's say the ones that they wore um.
Dave:
[20:38] You should get the one with an led readout so you can type things to people yeah okay great thanks help i'm trapped.
Tara:
[20:46] Turn around boys like in the uh pizza hut.
Dave:
[20:49] Commercials, elspeth what are you great at no hedging or self-denigration tell me i am really good at estimating the quality percent of a jpeg in waiting when exporting it to a fixed size in photoshop wow that's specific well that's what they asked tara uh.
Tara:
[21:10] Organization i hope you guys would agree sarah.
Sarah:
[21:13] Yes absolutely do i can get any dish utensil or pan clean and i can guess uh books weight within a tenth of a.
Dave:
[21:22] Yeah see that's like the photoshop skill it's very similar diato if If you had to house swap with one TV character a la The Holiday, who do you choose and how do they adapt to your home?
Tara:
[21:34] I don't know exactly where in Manhattan Shiv Roy lives in succession, but her place, what we saw of it was pretty nice. So I'm going to say that. How is she going to adapt to living here? She already has a dog, so that won't be a problem, but she's going to have a hard time not having staff to walk them. Sarah.
Sarah:
[21:51] Tis the season for the annual Dash and Lily rewatch, so I'm taking Lily's room at her family's apartment. It looks cozy as hell, and I think she will be fine. She seems to like animals, and I think she'll get along with Dan fine. She'll have her own room as well.
Dave:
[22:07] I'm using Young Me and we're talking about Stratton Mansion from Silver Spoons.
Tara:
[22:13] Oh, yeah.
Dave:
[22:13] Had the train conveyance, had that home arcade, gumball machine. Yes, please. So that means young Ricky is living at my place and without butlers, I may add. So good luck. Or a Gorf cabinet. You don't have Gorf. Is it really a life? I'm a PC gamer. So I guess he probably finds that, fires it up and plays Apex Legends on my account. And because he's young and his brain is only good for video games still, he does really well and he fucks up my ranking. So when I come back, I'm playing against people that are much better than I am. Gets me really angry and a little bit sad because I'm like, I can't keep up with these young butts and nutsers anymore.
Tara:
[22:55] All right.
Dave:
[22:56] So thanks for the question.
Tara:
[22:58] Really went somewhere very wistful.
Sarah:
[23:01] I know.
Dave:
[23:02] Sorry. Did everybody answer this question now?
Tara:
[23:04] Okay.
Sarah:
[23:05] Yes.
Dave:
[23:05] To Pickles, give each other outlandish pet names a la Arthur of Difficult People, calling Julie everything from corncob to mannequin-like. All right, Sarah.
Sarah:
[23:15] David T. Cole is we are chai and Tara is perps. I would prefer not to explain these and then just have people try to figure out where we got, how we got here on the discord. So that's, that's what I'm doing. Dave.
Dave:
[23:30] For Sarah, you got a choice of old bae, perfect pinch, Mrs. Dash or everything but the bagel. Tara is either Ponderosa, the sizzler, Ruth, Chris or strip house.
Tara:
[23:43] Oh.
Sarah:
[23:44] Oh.
Tara:
[23:46] Sarah is going to be Snappy Warrant and Dave is Bloody Glasses. And per Sarah's instructions, I'm not going to explain how I arrived at those either. You can guess.
Dave:
[23:57] Do you think we could call Tara the Sizzler for a few segments?
Tara:
[24:01] I kind of love it. I'm not mad at it.
Dave:
[24:03] Sizzler's pretty good.
Tara:
[24:04] It's pretty good.
Sarah:
[24:04] This is a particular kind of fart, though, in bunting lexicon.
Tara:
[24:10] Well.
Dave:
[24:10] It'll be the Sizzler brackets. We're talking about the steakhouse.
Sarah:
[24:14] Well, yeah, but you have to refer to it in the same way that they pronounced it in the Steakhouse commercials, because that's what it sounds like. Ricocheting off denim, in my experience. Sizzler.
Dave:
[24:27] All right. Learning a lot about Sarah today. Tara, did you go on this one?
Tara:
[24:34] Yes.
Dave:
[24:34] Okay, we're all done. All the Sizzler talk. Jovial Gent, what TV character would you like to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon with? If we can guarantee bad movie Homer and not sport Homer, I think Homer Simpson would actually be great. Couch napping, TV, snacks. If you just want to laze and you can get him into non-sports mode, I think he's your man. Sizzler.
Tara:
[25:00] It's Joey Tribbiani. Canonically, I would have the best nap of my life, and that sounds pretty good to me. Sarah.
Sarah:
[25:07] Audrey from Dawson's Creek. Seems like a fun name.
Dave:
[25:11] I thought of a... Joey, but then I worry that too much mayhem happens around him.
Tara:
[25:15] Yeah.
Dave:
[25:16] That may be interrupted.
Tara:
[25:18] Could be.
Dave:
[25:19] Ellen F., do you have a distinct memory of watching TV and having the program interrupted by a breaking news bulletin? Sarah.
Sarah:
[25:26] I really don't. The big events like that, I was either in school with no TV or out to dinner with no TV or five blocks away with no TV. I'm sure it must have happened to me at some point. I just don't remember it distinctly or otherwise. Dave, sorry, bloody glasses.
Dave:
[25:44] Thanks. So this is not exactly the answer. One time I was watching TV while my phone was telling me that nuclear missiles were heading towards my home in Hawaii. So that's not quite being interrupted on TV, but that is basically like, oh, I guess it's all over now. Anyways.
Tara:
[26:02] I was glad to sleep through all that, I'll say it. My sister was visiting us in Los Angeles in 1997. I don't remember what we were watching, but all three of us were in front of the TV, me, Leah, and Dave, when the news broke that Princess Diana had been in a car accident. And then that was just what was on TV for the next several hours. And we kept it on. And either she or I said, it would be so crazy if she died and then she did and it was crazy.
Dave:
[26:25] I bet it was mostly princess die but i bet that weird channel you could still watch dance 360 while all that was going on we're just flipping between dance 360 and princess die coverage yeah.
Tara:
[26:38] For some reason i have a memory of like we were watching something on e.
Dave:
[26:41] Like it might have.
Tara:
[26:42] Been the show that was just trailers because that was still novel to us at the time.
Dave:
[26:45] That's right anyway oh my god all right that's it for our questions here comes your question to answer listeners it comes from daemon daemon of the hill people i don't know why i said it like that you are the casting director for a new limited series murder mystery show from let's say netflix to appeal to gen x nostalgia you must cast only with actors who were at the height of their careers in the 90s who would you cast and what's the gist of the show go to our discord or ask ask esg channel put your answer there and we'll be back sometime soonish with judgment.
Dave:
[27:24] It is time for the Tiny Cannon presenting this week. It's Beezor Laura. Hi, Extra Hot Grade. It's Beezor Laura, and I'm here with a very special holiday presentation for the.
Tara:
[28:16] This Christmas. I'm going to have them all I can Because I don't have the right words And I have no background singers Oh.
Dave:
[28:29] I don't! Woo!
Sarah:
[28:34] This is going to be a merry, merry Christmas for you and me.
Tara:
[28:41] We're my background singers! At this point, Pat is a good one.
Sarah:
[29:07] Despite all the roadblocks thrown our way, the audience in the tree lighting ceremony barely applauds at the end, not giving her the credit she deserves.
Tara:
[29:14] I hope you will by inducting her to the going off the rails tiny cannon. Thank you, Beezer or Laura. We're going to make a little tweak and call this category live TV mishap because this is for sure. I'll go first. It is hilarious that the crowd's not, Mike. There wasn't a clip of this, but when she comes out, you can barely hear anyone applauding. This was taped from, this is just like a C-SPAN 2 presentation of the National Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington.
Dave:
[29:42] Not a lot of crane shots.
Tara:
[29:43] No. And she clearly expects an ovation, but it seems like the crowd even knows she fucked up. And I don't know if that's why she's sort of rattled from there, but she definitely is. Did not learn the song even a little, as you could hear in the clip. She is totally unprepared to roll with any of this, but she's also at the level where she just immediate reaction is, This is everyone else's fault, not hers, like the cue card guy or whatever.
Sarah:
[30:08] Mm hmm.
Tara:
[30:09] And then when she introduces him, I have to say his name. His name is on the card about the soloist from the, you know, army band or whatever.
Dave:
[30:17] Yeah.
Tara:
[30:18] And then at the end of it, she's got to go over to podium and bring out the president and first lady. This is 1996. So it's Bill and Hillary Clinton. And she acts so put upon about it. Like every part of this clip is absolutely amazing. She does not give a fuck. And I sort of admire that. And I sort of, you know, wish she had put a little bit more effort into it. Into this but it clearly is a live tv moment to remember sarah.
Sarah:
[30:42] Oh my god my first note was absolute queen my second note is this was me trying to get through the three and a half weeks of i don't want to wait at karaoke that time in vegas tara will fucking back me up because she was stuck with my baritone ass up there while we were in the wilderness with that endless song, everything about this is hilarable her oh my god this christmas or like next card next card woo it's it's brilliant it's like you could not script a better meltdown this poor man who she does try to introduce who's trying to play the trumpet without laughing hysterically it's terrible but it's also wonderful and i think we saw a version of this at new year's rock and eve with Mariah in the last few years that these divas are just like, if it's not exactly the way they want it, they're just going to wander around until someone puts the bumpers up in the lane.
Tara:
[31:43] Right.
Sarah:
[31:43] I laughed very, very hard.
Tara:
[31:47] It's really good.
Sarah:
[31:48] And I'm sorry about karaoke. Again, that was a mistake for us to choose that song.
Tara:
[31:54] Song is so much higher than you think, and it does have so many verses that you never hear.
Sarah:
[31:59] It just, oh my God. It's like Genesis, you know, book two. They're like, oh my God, why are we still here? Anyway, Dave.
Dave:
[32:08] I was a little confused about what was going on right at the start of the song. So she was complaining the background singers weren't out, but this seems like the background singers were just on a track because they start, they're singing with nobody else on stage right at the start. So like what part of this was supposed to be lip synced? I couldn't figure out who was going to be real and who was going to be fake in this whole setup. Oh, I see.
Tara:
[32:28] Yeah, I'm not sure because they do show the background singers at some point.
Dave:
[32:33] Yeah, they do. They come out towards the end.
Tara:
[32:34] Yeah.
Dave:
[32:35] But also, before anybody was on stage, we hear somebody, like, Patti LaBelle hadn't opened her mouth yet, and somebody was doing the oohs in.
Dave:
[32:43] The background. There's nobody on stage.
Tara:
[32:45] Right.
Dave:
[32:45] It seems to me that that was the tape.
Tara:
[32:47] Could be.
Dave:
[32:48] So I was just very confused about what was happening live.
Tara:
[32:51] Well, I'm going to hazard a guess.
Sarah:
[32:52] So was she.
Tara:
[32:53] She did not show up to rehearsal for this event.
Dave:
[32:56] You think?
Tara:
[32:56] I think she may not have.
Dave:
[32:58] Right. It was really cringy all the way through. I did enjoy watching it once, but it's interesting that it happened. It is a little bit funny to me, but it also seems like careers were ended that night. That's how I ended up here at Skid Row.
Sarah:
[33:12] They tell this story around the campfire. Backup singers with a flashlight held under their faces. And then we were all under the tree having a smoke. And the next thing you know, they're like, thank you for and we're sprinting towards the stage. Oh, my God. Ghost stories.
Tara:
[33:31] Yeah.
Sarah:
[33:31] Anyway.
Dave:
[33:31] Yeah. But I'm glad we have the live TV mishap because I instantly thought of something I want to put into that. So I'm looking forward to making that argument soon.
Sarah:
[33:42] All right. You too. It involves barfing. Ironically.
Dave:
[33:45] Let's put this to the official vote. Tara Ariana. What's it? Sarah Rudy Bunting.
Sarah:
[33:51] Woo!
Dave:
[33:52] And me too. So, Patti LaBelle's musical performance from the National Tree Lending Ceremony, you are hereby inducted into the Extra Hot Great Tiny Live TV Mishap Cannon.
Dave:
[34:05] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Here are my not quite top 17 tv show titles that sound like porn movies hr edition because that's where you're gonna get sent if you mention any of these in the workplace oh no number one half and half, number two hammer man number three hangin yeah mr cooper number four happy endings number five heart of dicks see, number six highway to heaven number seven the hills, Number eight, his dark materials. Number nine, hole in the wall. Not quite sure why, but we got Hong Kong phooey. And now we're in our R's. We got rawhide.
Tara:
[35:12] Yeah.
Dave:
[35:13] Rippin' Yarns.
Tara:
[35:14] Yeah.
Dave:
[35:15] Robin's Nest. Roger Ramjet. The rookie and finally tv shows that sound like porn movies hr edition the ropers oh dear, sarah what do you got, we have fun oh.
Sarah:
[35:43] Boy yeah we do we've also had way too much coffee today Woo, next card. Not quite 11 iconic TV buildings that, if they had appeared in Tommy Westfall's snow globe, would sunder the fabric of time and space. In alphabetical order by show name. Number one, the Peach Pit, Beverly Hills, 90210. Number two, 4222 Clinton Way, Metropolis, USA, the Brady Bunch. Number three, Cheers. Cheers. Number four, Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey. Number five, 6151 Richmond Street, Miami, Florida, which is actually in Los Angeles. And we found out the other day it sold for over $4 million in 2020 to people who had never seen the show, they said, lol. Number six, Hudson University, on order. Number seven, the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Scranton office in The Office. Number eight, The Arconia, only murders in the building. Number nine, Tom's Restaurant, Seinfeld. And number 10, Most Havern, The Simpsons. Tara.
Tara:
[36:48] I have the not quite top 11 most memorable gifts given or received by TV characters in ascending order of goodness. Number 10 from 30 Rock. In Secret Santa, Liz and Jack agree to exchange gifts that cost zero dollars. She gives him a fake bomb threat that keeps his crush Nancy in New York a little longer. He gives Liz an encounter with Larry Wilcox from Chips. Unclear what actually happens between Larry and Liz. Let's assume full sex. Number nine from Everybody Loves Raymond. Raymond gives his parents a toaster. They reflexively return, not knowing he had it specially engraved with a loving message. so they have to go back to the store in post-Christmas return hell to try to find it. A rare time the elder Barones are shitty and actually know it. Number eight from Beverly Hills 90210. After Tracy finds an engagement ring in Brandon's drawer and wrongly assumes it's for her, he has to tell her about his failed proposal to Kelly two seasons earlier and then exchanges the ring for a gold bracelet. It appeases Tracy, but is also the beginning of the end of their relationship, and since A, she gets free of Brandon, and B, dates a character played by Brian Van Holt after him who takes her to Hawaii. That's the real gift that Brandon gives her, if you ask me.
Tara:
[38:00] Number seven from The Simpsons. The statue of a stropalapa kettle. Mr. Burns gives Bart as a thank you for a blood donation. It takes up the whole basement forever. I'm not totally sure how it gets down there. Doesn't matter. None of my business. Number six from Friends. When Joey is dating Kathy and Chandler is secretly in love with her, Chandler buys her a first edition of The Velveteen Rabbit, which he knows was her favorite book as a child. Joey gets her a pen with a digital clock in it, so Chandler gives Joey the book to give to her. A gift times two. Number five, The King of Queens. We already discussed it in my last and absolutely final King of Queens canon pitch. The oil painting Deacon and Kelly bought Doug and Carrie to open a dialogue about the piece of art Doug and Carrie bought them that they hate. It's a massive backfire, but I want that painting. I really want that painting. Number four from NewsRadio. Dave buys Lisa a TV for her apartment because she doesn't have one. So he hates staying over there because he loves TV. After arguing about it for hours in the electronics store, a display TV gets switched to C-SPAN and she gets it. Whatever works. Number three from Taskmaster Season 1. Players are given 20 pounds in order to buy the Taskmaster a gift. Josh Whittakam gets the smallest tattoo 20 pounds can buy of Greg's name on his foot. Immediate five-point success for marking himself permanently.
Tara:
[39:21] Number two, Dawson's Creek. Pacey bought Joey a wall to paint a mural on. It's not his fault. She never did jack shit with it, and I'll never be over it. Number one, from Gilmore Girls. Dean built Rory a car that you can drive. An actual car. Never mind breaking up. I'm not sure how they didn't get married on the spot. That's my list.
Kari:
[39:52] Hello, friends. Welcome back to Carrie Race and the world's most dangerous musical moments on TV. I've got a holiday-themed edition for you this month, and you're going to need an extra big swig of eggnog to get ready for this mess. Remember Andy Williams? Yeah, me neither, but your grandparents do. They watched his Christmas specials every year back in the 60s and 70s. Today, I'm here to tell you about one that aired on NBC in 1985, titled Andy Williams and the NBC Kids' Search for Santa. Andy has the great idea to go on a search for Santa. Why? Don't ask. It's never explained, just like 90% of the wild stuff that happens in this special. Let's check in with Andy as he's scribbling out some invitations to the kids he wants to join him on his quest.
Kari:
[41:05] Wow. Okay, thanks for that great suggestion, Andy. Seriously, wasn't this the height of stranger danger? I think we might need to be a little more adamant about kids needing to clear it with somebody before they go off searching for Santa with a guy in his 60s who's still going by Andy. All right, so who are these lucky invitees? You'll be shocked to find out, if you've already forgotten the title of the special, that it is the kids from the NBC sitcoms that were on the air at the time. Christmas, tis the season for cross-promotional events. We've got the Cosby kids, Punky Brewster and Friends, the two boys from Gimme a Break, played by Matthew and Joey Lawrence. And we get scenes of them heeding Andy's advice and asking permission from their TV parental units. Felicia Rashad even sings. But then we get to the last two kids along for the ride, and this happens.
Kari:
[42:22] Um, wait a damn minute. So Mindy Cohn, the actress, is on this journey, not Natalie, on a break from Eastland? Then why in the heck were Lisa Bonet and Malcolm Jamal Warner asking Felicia Rashad for permission to go on this Santa search? I think their real parents might have some stronger objections to this whole mission. But it's possible the director or maybe Andy Williams himself realized what a mess they had made with that one badly sung line from Mindy because she seriously disappears and is never seen again on this trip. There is a lot of upsetting singing throughout what I guess was an hour special, but I have to be honest with you, I could only find this broken up into three seven-minute segments on YouTube, so I really have no idea what you actually saw if you were watching this on December 20th, 1985.
Kari:
[43:14] Every time Andy sings, there is at least one child sitting on his lap or leaning on his knee, and I absolutely hate it. And you tell me if you think someone should have rethought the lyrics to this song, which he sings to all of the kids as they are gathered around him in their pajamas. Even though it goes against all of my values, I am afraid, I must say very emphatically, I have called the police.
Kari:
[44:13] Yuck, yuck, yuck. I do feel like all of these kids absolutely hated Andy Williams. Most of the time, when they are forced to listen to him sing, they look at him like he just ran over their favorite pet.
Kari:
[44:24] Anywho, at one point, suddenly we're in a hall with a bunch of Nordic dancers. There is literally no explanation for how we got there, but we don't need any plot because it's just an excuse for Alfonso Ribeiro to do a tap routine. It realistically goes on for maybe 90 seconds, but it feels like a year. And they cut to poor Tempest Bledsoe in the audience at one point and she's half-heartedly trying to shimmy her shoulders along but she can't quite find the beat and she gives up mid-shrug and just stares into the middle distance. I feel you, Tempest. So at the end, can you even believe it, they do find Santa's house but Andy doesn't even let the kids go inside. He tells them to wait and then he snoops all around Santa's house until you find Santa just sitting in the corner. But we don't see Santa because now Santa is the camera and Andy is singing to Santa slash the camera slash us. Ugh.
Kari:
[45:44] He goes on to say Santa needs to justify the kids' faith in him, and, jeez, oh Pete, leave this poor man alone. It's been a long time since I thought about Santa and what he's supposed to represent, but I'm pretty sure him needing to justify himself to children was never part of the legend. And then Andy's song ends, cut to commercial, and when we come back, here he is wrapping up the show. I guess the kids didn't get that wave? Or maybe Santa did the right thing, called Child Protective Services and got them returned to their families. Their real families. Happy holidays to all who celebrate. Until we meet again, stay dangerous, my friends.
Sarah:
[46:39] Hello, Grand Pie. We're so glad that you're here. If you had been here in the show up until now, you would have heard about 40 minutes of how we are shopping TV for our friends and family's holiday gifts. You'd have heard our answers to your questions about Lazy Sundays with TV characters and Daft Punk helmets. And you'd have heard Carrie Race's commentary for this month. If you kick up those pledges, you can give yourselves the gift of the entire weekend show. But we are glad that you are here now to help us celebrate a literal grandpa or great grandpa, really. Dick Van Dyke, who, as you are listening to this, turns 100 years old tomorrow, December 13th. We talk a fair bit about the Dick Van Dyke show around here. For his birthday, I thought that we could not like roast him, but do an, oh yeah, that thing style. this is your IMDb life type of thing. Bring in some Van Dyke performances that people might not know about, but they should. Also, as you're listening to this before I forget, his episode of American Masters will be premiering on PBS tonight. Check your local listings. I watched part of it already, and it is great. Tara, start us off.
Tara:
[47:51] I had three runners-up where Dick Van Dyke plays baddies. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5, episode 23 is called Craig's Will. A greedy young man and his scheming girlfriend concoct various plans for a dog's early demise after the man's uncle dies and wills the bulk of his estate to the dog instead of the man who was the decedent's only surviving heir.
Sarah:
[48:11] Yeah, you'll be hearing about this later in the segment. So yeah.
Tara:
[48:16] Columbo season four, episode two, negative reaction. A photographer murders his wife and blames her death on a bungled kidnapping, but Lieutenant Columbo has an even sharper eye than the Pulitzer Prize winner. He is the killer. And Super Train, Season 1, Episode 2, and A Cup of Kindness 2, aired Valentine's Day, 1979. Dick Van Dyke plays a deranged man who plans to repay a kindness by killing the estranged wife of his benefactor. This one also, by the way, for Listen to Sassy fans, co-stars our friend Keith Kevin Coogan, forever. But my actual pick is The Middle, Season 6, Episode 21, Two of a Kind. The Middle is one of those buzzless network shows that chugged along for way longer than anyone remembers, like Wings or the Goldbergs. It's about a lower middle class family in the fictional Orson, Indiana. The parents, Frankie and Mike, are played by sitcom veterans Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn. Jerry Van Dyke had a recurring role as Tag, Frankie's father, who has been estranged for decades from his older brother, Dutch. He's not happy about an imminent reunion and warns the family members who don't know him about what to expect. clip one.
Tara:
[49:34] Right before Dutch arrives, Tag is also concerned about the fall risks at the house, clip two. Hey, rug on a rug. That's like a death trap. And move that autumn in there. He'll trip right over that thing. Nah. Then Dutch arrives, played by Dick Van Dyke, and proceeds to Dick Van Dyke around. He has got a successful carpet cleaning business in Las Vegas and happily shows them the song and dance he does in his local TV commercials. At one point, he leans back on the couch and does a full high kick in the air. At this point, you know, this is 10 years ago, so he's in his 90s already, probably. Tag gets more and more annoyed, trying to seem as vital as Dutt, like pretending the cane he's been using for his arthritic hip is Mike's, and refusing to reprise a routine the brothers did together to audition for a variety show on TV in their youth. Because Tag screwed it up, Dutch blames him for their spot going to the Lennon sisters, which is the second mention of them on this podcast this year after the Frasier episode we discussed in three of these. Anyway, Ted gets over himself eventually, and as the episode is winding down, the family is drawn out to the kitchen in the middle of the night by the sound of a performance, clip three.
Tara:
[50:43] Need we explain when he warbles sweetly, I'm flat, The B-plot also includes Brooke Dillman, a friend of Jeff Drake's, and his co-host on Nine Chickweed Rage, his podcast about Nine Chickweed Lade that you've heard him plug many times. So there's a lot to like in the episode. If you look it up on Peacock, you will find it rewarding. That is, once again, Two of a Kind, Season 6, Episode 21. Sarah?
Sarah:
[52:13] I was a bit surprised to see that Dick Van Dyke did not have a Twilight Zone episode on his resume. But as mentioned he does have this fifth season alfred hitchcock presents called craig's will it aired in march of 1960 craig in question is an old coot who has just died as we find out from a voiceover from a sultry blonde on an analyst's couch the blonde is hoping to marry craig's nephew tommy that's dick van dyke that's craig's only surviving blood relative but we've just watched Hitch's intro in which three wire-haired terriers were joining him on stools, so we know it's probably not going to go well for Tommy. Clip one. One whose high spirits have brightened these last days and.
Tara:
[52:59] There when I called. My ever faithful Casper. Casper? But you can't leave a fortune to a dog. That's true, I can't. But.
Sarah:
[53:43] He truly liked that name. That's the detective from Psycho, which came out the same year. Anyway, Tommy gets a dollar and the right to live in the Craig Mansion. And when Casper dies, Tommy will get everything. He is bummed out because the dog is only two years old, and the blonde, played by Stella Stevens, a famous playboy centerfold of the middle of the last century who was also in the Poseidon Adventure and many other mid-century films, coos, that they should just speed up the old life cycle on Casper. Well, Tommy tries to go through with this plan, but he can't. And then the blonde hires a mob-affiliated PI, and he can't go through with it either, although he tries and then ends up poisoning himself. And when Tommy finds out that the blonde has been scheming to knock off Casper against Tommy's wishes, he falls out of love with her, and she literally loses her mind. The button on the episode is that the blonde was on the analyst's couch because she's decided to, quote, become a dog and marry Casper. Har?
Tara:
[54:46] Whoa.
Sarah:
[54:47] Extremely dumb. We couldn't figure out how to end this button. The episode otherwise is fine. Diverting. There's cute Wolfhound Mix playing Casper. It's a funny bit at the very end with Hitch lion taming some house cats. But for our purposes, it was interesting to see Dick Van Dyke mostly playing a straight man in a horror slash noir-ish premise. But my favorite part is a physical bit that this famously visual medium of podcasting is not really going to help me out. But at one point, Tommy has brought Casper out to the woods to shoot him under the guise of a hunting trip. And another hunter with Coke bottle glasses blunders out of the underbrush and interrupts the process. And while he and Tommy are talking, Magoo is not really minding his iron, as they say. And Van Dyke very subtly extends a forefinger and sort of guides the muzzle of Magoo's hunting rifle away from himself. It's such a tiny bit of business, but it speaks so much to how thoroughly he inhabits space and how thoroughly he understands physical comedy and timing and stuff like that, that even something that nobody is really paying that close of attention to, he colors to the absolute edge of the paper with professionalism. So, dumb ending, but a pleasure to watch him work, as always. Dave!
Dave:
[56:12] We're talking about Airwolf! Airwolf! But not the good Airwolf, this is the retooled, now off CBS and shooting in Canada, fourth season of Airwolf, Airwolf? In which Dick Van Dyke, plays mal duke mal duke is an immune system compromised man in the bubble but he's also like a mad scientist who wants to like take over the world i think and uh he's up against airwolf the super helicopter that fun fact this version of the show did not have access to, he had no money human airwolf here is played by barry van dyke calling in a favor to dad Dad, please go with my airwolf show, dad.
Sarah:
[57:00] Oh, boy.
Dave:
[57:01] So what I'm going to do for you is basically play all of Dick Van Dyke's Malduke moments from this episode. Malduke moments, trademark. Yes. I want you guys then to guess what happened in the episode. All right.
Sarah:
[57:16] Okay.
Dave:
[57:16] First up, big clues. We actually get Malduke's self-introduction into the world, and he's doing it like kill face style. He takes over the airwaves, and this is broadcast in a bar. I give notice now that all nations must, actions as those of a savior. All right so honestly i'm giving equal billing to the soundtrack in this episode, van dyke in the soundtrack and split it because every time he says something something like that happens in the music background motion seconded all right here's the bar.
Sarah:
[58:38] Only a fool bumps his.
Dave:
[58:40] Head against the same wall twice give me something to think about all right we're not giving dick van dyke a second take for this so we're just gonna have to use it as is i would urge against such a move mr hawk the freighter is carrying atomic waste from japanese nuclear plants if detonated it would destroy all life in the Pacific Basin.
Sarah:
[59:04] You do understand. Oh, my God.
Tara:
[59:15] Oh, wow.
Dave:
[59:19] Atomic. Waste for it. Waste. Poor guy. All right, we got more Maladuque moments. Be warned. And if I see that machine of yours in the air again, I will detonate, And goodbye.
Tara:
[59:43] Pew.
Dave:
[59:45] Pew. This is not acceptable. Why is it taking so long? He's coming by ambulance. Expect it to arrive any minute. Why can a radio not be brought to him?
Tara:
[1:00:00] Ah, fair question. Detonate the freighter, now!
Dave:
[1:00:31] Okay we're done all right this is also we're putting in the bucket of please give them a second chance yes we tracked your transmission please sleep, much longer. Not in this world, I can assure you. What? All right, we're getting near the end. Here's two more Malduke moments. Finally, a villainous laugh.
Sarah:
[1:01:09] Leave me. All of you. Make your escape. Now. You are remaining Malduke?
Dave:
[1:01:16] Desire to live in a world that is contaminated. All right, one more. We have excellent seeds.
Dave:
[1:02:06] Well i heard airwolf yeah airwolf's coming wow and finally let's play third act fight or morning aerobics class with our last clip, that's a wrap on the malduke episode all right you've heard all the clips in chronological order i think the plot of the episode should be obvious tara tell me what the plot of malduke is okay.
Tara:
[1:02:47] Just how what happens.
Dave:
[1:02:49] Or how it is what you think this is okay well i mean.
Tara:
[1:02:52] I heard contaminated so So he thinks there's some kind of pandemic or a disease outbreak.
Dave:
[1:02:57] Okay.
Tara:
[1:02:57] So he's trying to arrange circumstances so that he can take out the greatest number of people because he's a madman. And then he gets punched to death and his plan is not brought to fruition. Or he just gets punched real hard and gets arrested.
Dave:
[1:03:16] Okay. Sarah, thoughts?
Sarah:
[1:03:17] I think he has an immune disorder. He's trying to confine anyone who's germy to one continent, which he's then going to blow up while he gets a brain transplant, basically, in Mount Weather. And when that doesn't work out, he's like, well, then I'll just blow up Mount Weather.
Dave:
[1:03:36] Okay. Sarah's closer. Here's the gist of it. Yes, he's an immune-compromised person who wants anybody who's going to give him the sniffles put on some part of Earth. He does not say at this point he wants to nuke them or whatever. If they don't do this, he's going to contaminate the oceans with atomic energy. Waste sure so then for a while for like a good half of the episode it's just airwolf flying around a lot and annoying mal duke but not really doing anything to stop him and then mal duke goes on the offensive finds the airwolf hq captures airwolf's control team of two people and rigs the place to blow up including the clip you heard where he's put lasers over like the volcano mouth entrance so if it flies through then the whole thing will blow and then i'm not kidding the The human air wolves just walk through the front door instead of flying their helicopter in. So the fight, which you heard right at the end of the last clip, Malduke gets punched. He gets kicked. He gets shot, but doesn't lose a beat as he picks up human air wolf by the neck, Darth Vader style from Star Wars, and like throws him across the room.
Tara:
[1:04:43] Yeah.
Dave:
[1:04:44] Then, because I'm guessing the script called for a power bank, but they couldn't find that, Malduke is shoved into a computer bank, and it's electrified as if it was a power bank. He explodes, his head comes off, and we see that Malduke is just a robot.
Tara:
[1:05:03] Oh no.
Dave:
[1:05:05] But we then see the real Malduke never left his own base, and why would he? He's the man in the bubble in this story. And the head on the HQ floor of Airwolf is still looking around after it's been removed from his body. And that's because real Malduke is using his 1980s video game joystick back as his base to move the eyes around remotely. Oh, my God. And then, end of episode, Malduke lives, but doesn't come back to the show.
Sarah:
[1:05:36] No, because the show couldn't afford him twice. Wow.
Tara:
[1:05:40] But that's a nice gift to Barry.
Dave:
[1:05:44] Well, guys, that is it for this episode of Extra, Extra Hot Great. We opened our TV gifts on Christmas morning. I'm going to skip all this. Before answering your burning ass EASG questions like, who are you holidaying your house with? And what giant helmet will you be wearing when you greet them? You don't greet them in the holidaying, though. You're at different places. Got a lot of editing to do. We were all in sync for Bees on Laura's pitch for the live TV mishap Tiny Cannon. We generated three not-quite-top-11 lists. Carrie introduced us to Andy Williams' 1985 Christmas special. And we wrapped it all up with Dick Van Dyke at 100. Asterisk, please don't die between now and mid-December. Next up, and if he does, it's not my fault for just saying that.
Tara:
[1:06:36] No.
Dave:
[1:06:36] Next up, it's the all-canon episode on EHG Prime. Remember, we're listening. I am David T. Cole. And on behalf of Tara Arianna.
Tara:
[1:06:49] This Christmas.
Dave:
[1:06:52] And Sarah D. Bunting.
Sarah:
[1:06:54] But he's a dog.
Dave:
[1:06:56] Thanks for listening. And we'll see you next time right here on Extra Extra. Bye, great.