We’re DTF With DTF St. Louis

Dave 0:19 This is the Extra Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 398 for the March 7, 2026 weekend. I am heavily promoted local weatherman, David T. Cole. And I'm here with Indiana Jones porn truther, Tara Ariano. Tara 0:42 He's not even hard. Dave 0:54 Also would have accepted, that's not the right kind of whip. Tara 0:59 Welcome children listening in the back of the van get driven to clarinet lessons. Thank you to all of our supporters for being here. Welcome to Extra Extra Hot Great for another weekend. We are here to talk about the absolutely filthy, it's not really, but it is a little, DTF St. Louis. Dave 1:18 Dallas to Fort Worth. Tara 1:22 Yeah. Yeah. Dave 1:24 Don't mess with Earth. Okay, go ahead. Tara 1:28 Clark Forrest, Jason Bateman, is a TV weatherman whose close friendship with his ASL interpreter, Floyd Smirnich, David Harbour, is forged when, on Floyd's first day, he saves Clark from getting impaled by a stop sign flying through the tornado Clark is reporting on. As the men's friendship deepens, including socializing with their wives and kids, Clark feels more comfortable confiding in Floyd about things like his interest in a hookup app. But Clark has a larger plan Floyd is not entirely privy to. The show was created by Stephen Conrad, who previously brought us Prime Video's Patriot. As far as I can tell, he got the Mike White-Julio Torres deal, where he has written and directed every episode. Only the first has aired so far on HBO March 1st. We got access to the first four of seven in the seasons, but we will be careful about spoiling future episodes. Let's do the Chen check-in. Dave, should our listeners watch DTF St. Louis? Dave 2:23 Yeah, I'm four episodes in and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Tara 2:27 I agree. It's not what I expected. And I somehow totally miss that it was Stephen Conrad, which made me more excited. Dave 2:34 I had no idea what we were watching going in. I literally did not know who was in it. All I knew was HBO. I thought it was a comedy. Tara 2:41 It's kind of a comedy. I think it is fair to say we both liked Patriot a lot and that we got through Stephen Conrad's follow up to that, which was called Perpetual Grace Limited. I would say DTF St. Louis is the most accessible of his TV shows we've watched while still working weirdness in around the margins. Would you agree? Dave 3:02 I would agree. I think I would place it under Patriot just for how much I liked it, but definitely over the perpetual blibbity blibbity blue, which started out okay, but then fell apart quite quickly. Tara 3:15 Yes, it did. Dave 3:16 And seemed like maybe he needed a little more governance in that one. However, this one, to me, if I had to nutshell it, I would say it's Stephen Conrad's depressing location, White Lotus. Tara 3:30 Yeah, yes. It certainly does also have a murder mystery. And I was trying to figure out why this one didn't bug me. I think it might be that anyone in a Stephen Conrad show seems capable of killing anyone else at any time for any reason. And that's why it just seems more natural here. Yeah. Dave 3:47 I also like about his stuff is that he's not overly worried about having any character be likable. He's just like the characters are the characters and you accept them or you don't. You don't necessarily have anybody to root for in his shows. And this is sort of the same. I mean, I think the characters are really well drawn and portrayed. It's just that you're not like, well, I really want good things for this one or that one or whatever. That just isn't the kind of show that he does. Tara 4:13 Yeah, it's very anti-hero. Anti-hero era is back. And I'll also say it has the restraint not to open with the big death. It holds it for halfway through the first episode. Dave 4:24 I was a little shocked. Tara 4:26 I was too. Dave 4:26 Yeah, I thought they weaved that in very well. I thought it was just like, here it is. Blomp. I was like, oh. Tara 4:32 All right. Dave 4:33 I wasn't expecting that. Apparently, the show is a murder mystery. Here we go. Tara 4:37 No, in my notes, I'm like, he's passed out. And it's like, oops, no, he's not. He is. Dave 4:41 He is dead. Tara 4:43 The commitment the show has to making all of its characters' middle-aged interests and affectations so embarrassing is for someone who is around their age, occasionally devastating, but also feels very true. What did you think? Dave 4:57 I think it was in the first episode, but there is a moment where the David Harbour character, Floyd, is... Dave 5:03 Is in his house and he's just having this moment of sort of stress and anxiety and then it all just sort of washes away from him and his wife's like what what what's wrong what happened he's like wow batman lived he's like reading a comic he's like i was worried batman on this page wasn't going to make it and he flips the page over but like right here he made it i'm like that seemed very sad and you know part of it is that it's speaking to his condition and where his mind is at at this point in his life which is not in a great space he's also having health problems and money problems and money problems that are all playing off each other it's this vicious circle that he's going through but that one and then of course just the midlife crisis that every character is having in this show. The show is named for a hookup app. That's the name of the app in St. Louis. And a lot of stuff happens when they start becoming users of this app. Everybody in this show is making all the wrong decisions on how to deal with this midlife crisis that they're having. They're just going too fast and they're too headstrong into needing to, or thinking they need to make a big change. And what that means for each of the main three characters is different. and surprising in a couple of them. They weed that in pretty well. Dave 6:24 It also doesn't hurt that when you see things like Jason Bateman's new dry skin, you're like, oh, okay, he's getting older. It's about time he had a midlife crisis, I guess. Tara 6:34 He's getting up there. Dave 6:36 Yeah, sure. Tara 6:36 When I looked up Linda Carlina and saw that she was 50, I was like, really surprised. But she is. We are the same age almost. The hookup app itself, even that is, like, nothing about it is sexy. when the two guys are going over what they're going to make their profiles. It's so funny how much they workshop it with as much attention as if they were making a resume. Dave 6:57 Yeah, I mean, basically it is. The only problem with that whole thing, and I get it as a cute title to use, is that there's no way that app would be regional. Tara 7:06 No. Dave 7:07 What was the app where people were getting trouble for? Tara 7:10 Ashley Madison. Dave 7:11 Yes. Tara 7:11 That's the cheating app. Dave 7:13 I mean, this was too, basically, the way they were using it. Tara 7:15 Right, right. Yeah, but I assumed it was like, the local one is just, called that, but it's DTF, whatever it is, whenever you log in. But I guess that's not how apps work. I don't know. I'm certainly not on them. Cough. Dave 7:27 I'm on DTT. Down to talk. Very nice. Tara 7:33 Of the three leads, I feel like Floyd is the closest to the sweetie that you don't want anything bad to happen to. Dave 7:41 Yeah, he's got a stepson from his marriage with Linda Cardellini. Tara 7:45 Carol. Dave 7:46 The son is, he's eventually diagnosed, but the son's just having behavioral issues in the first couple episodes. And Floyd is really trying hard to sort of take him under his wing and win him over. But the kid is, you know, really not having any of it. He's of that age. Plus, he's getting bullied at school because he's neurodivergent in some manner. We'll find out later. Not a big spoiler. Tara 8:09 No, but I think, yes, I was going to say, you can sort of tell when his favorite activity is like throwing rocks at a house that there's something going on. Dave 8:17 So, I mean, the fact that Floyd is doing this makes him the sweetest character in the show. Sure. But still, he's not exactly the hero of it. Tara 8:28 No. Like the Batman thing, it's sort of like, oh, honey. Like, it's not so much that you like him. It's more that like you fear for his soft, soft heart. Dave 8:37 What did David Harbour do that we don't like him anymore? Tara 8:39 He cheated on his wife. Dave 8:42 Oh. Tara 8:43 It sounds like. I mean, I haven't followed all of it except that she made a very angry album about it. Dave 8:49 Who's his wife? Tara 8:50 That I've only listened to a little of. Lily Allen. Dave 8:52 Okay. Tara 8:52 Was. Dave 8:53 Didn't he also like yell at people on Stranger Things or something like that? That's what I was thinking of. Tara 8:58 There was a rumor that he had bullied Millie Bobby Brown, but I think he was exonerated of that. Dave 9:05 All right. Thank you. Tara 9:06 Because I think it happened around the same time. So people are like, ooh, we hate him for multiple reasons. Dave 9:11 Doesn't sound like this guy's safe at all. That's a harbor joke. Tara 9:15 It is a harbor joke. It's a British harbor joke. The you in there to be all classy. Dave 9:21 Yep. The oceans are no battlefields. Don't know what that means. And here there are moments where you really feel for Floyd because of the betrayal and he's a ASL interpreter. And when we first see him in the show, he is doing The Weather beside Jason Bateman. And eventually we find out he also is one of the guys who does ASL at concerts. So he's there at a hip hop concert doing his thing and he is going balls out. Tara 9:52 It's so sweet. Dave 9:53 This is going in the second episode or so, but he is going crazy. Tara 9:57 Yeah, we see flashes of it in the first episode. And it's also in the credits of him like just going off of the show. Dave 10:02 That was very endearing. Tara 10:04 Yeah. There is a kind of mannered way that people speak in a Stephen Conrad show that I think we see mostly with the detectives who are played by Richard Jenkins and Joy Sunday. I think the three leads make their dialogue sound a lot more natural than is typical for a Stephen Conrad show. What did you think? Dave 10:22 Yeah, more so here than Patriot, for sure. Patriot had a very sort of removed and stoic kind of delivery, mostly because that's where the lead's head was at. He was sort of dealing with his own shit there. He put out a podcast during and after, and once in a while since, the end of Patriot starring the Kurtwood Smith character. And he was like a scientist. And this podcast, just like all about his adventures that surround his career. And it is just very dry and matter of fact, but it's also, it's got stoic pizzazz. I don't quite know how else to say it, but they're delivering dynamic dialogue in sort of this semi-passive manner. It's not the same thing, but it reminds me of sort of the sing-songy American Shakespeare rhythms of Deadwood, right? It's not the same thing, but it has that same quality where it does seem like there's a hidden, what do they call it in Shakespeare? The... Tara 11:24 Iambic pentameter. Dave 11:26 Yeah, they got a version of that that's their own. It kind of feels like that. And it does sort of marry everything together. And you're right, The scenes between Bateman and Jenkins are probably the exemplars of that. But those are really good scenes, too, because they take their time. It reminds me of Better Call Saul a bit in that way. Tara 11:45 Yep. You already hinted at it in your opening. If the show is accurate, no one in the greater St. Louis area is a bigger celebrity than a local TV weatherman who has dozens of billboards all over town. Dave 11:56 Not only dozens, but apparently the only. We don't see any other billboards with anything but his mug on them. Great for him, but also bad for the station after he gets in trouble with the law. Tara 12:09 Yeah. Watching his alarm go off at 4 a.m. so he can be there for the early morning. breakfast TV show. That was rough for me. Took me back. Dave 12:18 Watching him tell everybody else at his party or his get-together or whatever, it's like, it's time for bed. It was like, obviously, just after dinner. Tara 12:25 Yeah. Dave 12:26 And I was like, oh, boy. Tara 12:27 The sun's still out. Dave 12:28 That's tough. No, thank you. Tara 12:30 The last several things I've seen, Linda Cardellini and have not let her do anything funny. So I'm glad that Stephen Conrad understood what she's capable of and cast her in this. I think we already said she plays Floyd's wife, Carol. Yeah. Dave 12:43 And I know you haven't watched through as far as I have, but she has a giant I am a bitch moment in episode three that I was like, wow, that is the bitchiest thing. It's not histrionics. It's very measured. But I was like, ooh, that's bad. I wouldn't want to be in that situation. And then there's some other moments in the same episode like, ooh, that sounded like Tara when she's mad. Tara 13:06 Oh, no. Don't say that. Dave 13:09 Sorry. Tara 13:10 Two thirds. Well, now I have to watch it and try to figure out which ones you meant. I also enjoyed the specificity of the national brands that appear in this, which include Outback Steakhouse. That's where they go to workshop their bios for the app. And then Jamba Juice plays a very pivotal role in the second episode. I will say no more, but really helps the authenticity of the Midwestern banality. There's no place that's worth any character. You can't go to your local divy bar. You have to go to Outback Steakhouse because that's what there is in Twyla. Dave 13:43 That's right. Tara 13:45 I did look up to see if Kevin Kline Community Pools was real. It is not. But Kevin Kline is from St. Louis. So I appreciated that. Dave 13:52 That was good. Tara 13:53 That detail. Dave 13:54 Yeah. Tara 13:54 And the place I confirmed that also called out that Clark works for a TV station that starts with a W. They are on the K side of the country in St. Louis. Dave 14:03 Yeah. Tara 14:04 I don't know if that's supposed to make us feel like it's an uncanny version of St. Louis, like a severance St. Louis or something, or if they just were sloppy. Dave 14:13 A liminal state. Tara 14:14 Yes, exactly. They're in St. Louis, Missouri. Dave 14:18 Yeah. Missouri, no one likes Superman. Tara 14:21 I posted about this on Blue Sky earlier this week, but poor, sweet Richard Jenkins did not know what DTF stood for until he signed up for this. No, I think the show's very good, but it also breaks my heart. To think he's lost his innocence like this. Dave 14:37 It worked for him because that's his character in the show, too. Like, the character is always asking what this and that means and what is that in the photo. Tara 14:45 Yep. Dave 14:45 He's seen a lot of shit, but he's also, you know, sheltered himself from certain aspects of the job. One of them being sex, apparently. Tara 14:54 Yes. Well, I look forward to continuing to watch and see how his relationship with Jodi, who is the Joy Sunday detective character, how they continue to bounce off each other. Good show. What a nice surprise. Dave 15:05 Yeah, I'm liking it so far. And just as a last thought, they're really good. Much like the White Lotus in ending an episode. You're like, got to get to that next one now. Tara 15:17 Yeah. Dave 15:17 He knows what he's doing. Tara 15:18 Yeah. Dave 15:25 All right, everybody. It's time for the segment in which you ask us questions. Us being EHG. The segment, of course, Ask EHG. Everything makes sense. Don't worry about anything. Tara 15:36 Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Ding. Ding. Dave 15:50 Let's get into our Ask, Ask, EHG judgment. I am going to spin the wheel of judgment. It's me. All right. Last week's question came from Dixon Chance. They asked, you have to film an episode of a TV show where everyone is upside down. What is happening? I burned this one on Discord already, but mine was L.A. Law when Rosalind dies in the shaft and this one she floats up and dies. Some really good answers here. I'm going to go over a few of them and we have two winners this week. But let's get some runner-ups. Beez or Laura. I don't know what else happens in the episode, but everyone is writing with those pens you hold upside down. The lady's clothes come off, but since everything is upside down, her clothes keep on coming back on. Tragic. Don't know what show that's for, but that's the scene. Monty suggested The Muppet Show, same sets, but now all we see is legs being puppeteered. Diana Joy, dancing with the stars on the ceiling. Good. Concise. Tara 16:55 Nope. Dave 16:56 Shane, Shane is bringing the hell is empty and all the devils are here energy with this one. Stranger Things pitch, The Upside Down is actually the right side up and our world is actually the horror. Tara 17:06 Oh, damn. Dave 17:06 All right. Here's our two winners. Winner number one, Sweet Pea Pink. My 16-year-old suggest Veronica Mars, and they just don't explain why. So here's the deal. If you can get an explanation from your kid, you will win. If you don't, you don't. So you gotta go back in the Discord and with your kid's explanation for Veronica Mars. Our actual super winner this week is Elsuz, a sorcerer infiltrates the community, turns off gravity, and gives everyone suction cup feet. Underside of the dome. Tara 17:41 What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things i have ever heard, be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now domer for having listened to it. I award you no points. Dave 18:04 And may God have mercy on your soul. All right, sweet P. Pink, you got some homework. Elsus, feel free to DM me whenever you want on Discord, and I will get you some stickers. Ready for our questions this week, Tara? Tara 18:16 Yes. Dave 18:17 First one comes from Jovial Jen. What is a fictional beverage you want to try? Tara 18:22 I went with Nuka-Cola from Fallout. I feel like this would be like Coke plus jolt plus nuclear powered caffeine. And I'm interested. Dave 18:32 Plus radiation. Tara 18:33 Plus radiation. Yeah, sure. Dave 18:35 I feel good for now. I realized recently that I don't have the proper mug for a Rack-A-Geno, so I can't have that Star Trek Klingon beverage. The one I'm most curious about is actually Slurm from Futurama because I think it's a 50-50 on whether it's some gross phlegmy kind of thing or whether it's just like an amazing syrupy kid's sugar soda like Tahitian Treat or something like that, except, you know, green flavored. but on that track real world slurm-esque experience i went to the 7-eleven nearest to get a fountain soda on one of my big fog walks and their machine was sort of on the fritz and it was dispensing i'm gonna guess 95 pure syrup from the machine shit uh it was exactly like the simpsons it was just like the super squishy that was all syrup from the simpsons i was just like out of my mind for the rest of the walk. Tara 19:30 You got to 10,000 steps in approximately 42 minutes. Dave 19:34 In a circle. Tara 19:35 Yeah. Dave 19:35 Talking to myself. Yeah. All right. Millsnack. We've mastered a spray cheese and spray whipped cream. What other food would you like a spray can option for? Got a couple here. Spray peanut butter. Like a really soft peanut butter. Tara 19:49 Yep. Dave 19:49 And spray coffee sandwich cream. So like the coffee stuff you get inside of a cookie. Tara 19:54 Okay. Dave 19:55 And that way you can put it on your own cookies. Because sometimes there's really good goo in a cookie, but the cookie sucks. Surprisingly, you know those cheap shitty sandwich cookies you get in the hard cellophane wrapper at a store? Tara 20:07 Yes. Dave 20:07 Where there's like twice as much cream? Love the cream in those. Tara 20:11 Yeah. Dave 20:11 The cookie is subpar. So if I can get that sort of thing on my own cookie, perhaps I'll put it on the ginger snap. Tara 20:18 Yeah. Dave 20:19 Hooray. Tara 20:19 That sounds like it's something a Dave would do for sure. Put spray cheese and spray whipped cream together. Spray cream cheese. Dave 20:26 Gross. Vandy. Vandy asks, do you have a favorite bowl for cereal or for soup? And do you have a favorite mug for hot beverages? Tara. Tara 20:36 I have a preferred bowl style. I don't have an individual bowl. Dave 20:42 What's the bowl style, please? Tara 20:44 Okay, well, so we have like a big flat bowl. Those are what we typically use for pasta. Dave 20:50 It's a soup bowl, I believe. Tara 20:52 I think technically it is. Dave 20:53 Yes. Tara 20:53 So then we also have a bunch of fiesta ware bowls. The smaller ones are, I would say, like slightly bigger than a cappuccino bowl. They're like that size-ish. And then bigger, deeper bowls. So the, you know, the big deep ones, that's for chili or soup, unless I make soup just for myself and then I just eat it out of the pot like an animal. And then the smaller ones are for cereal. Dave 21:17 Yeah. Tara 21:17 And mug, I have no favorite mug for hot beverages. I rarely have hot beverages at all. Dave 21:23 Yeah, they hurt your tongue. Tara 21:24 All mugs are the same to me. What about you? Dave 21:26 Well, all bowls are the same to me. I don't care that much. Mugs, I do have a go-to mug. I wouldn't call it my favorite, but I have one travel mug and I use it when I make a hot chai to stick it in there so that I can bring it to my desk and enjoy it over an hour instead of having to drink it in 12 minutes, which usually happens if you're not putting it in a thermos. And with an E-E-E, does Dave know who Amy Madigan is? What about Laura Branigan? First of all, I love this line of questioning, and I'm ready for more. Amy Madigan... I think I can picture what she looks like, but I cannot tell you anything she's in. So here's my description. She's been around for a while, but she has a face that always destined to be a great grandma face one day. Is that making sense so far? Do you think I have her right? Tara 22:11 Yes. Dave 22:11 Okay. What's she been in? Give me the big one. Tara 22:15 She's Ed Harris's wife. So she, at that famous Oscars where they gave an honorary. Dave 22:21 They were like. Tara 22:22 She was sitting next to him also not clapping for Aylia Kazan. Dave 22:26 Right. Tara 22:26 But she's, I believe, the wife in Field of Dreams, a movie I have somehow never seen. Dave 22:31 Okay. Tara 22:32 And she is currently, I believe, Oscar nominated for her role in Weapons, where she played Aunt Gladys. Someone who I, to your point about always destined to look like a grandma. When I watched the movie, I thought she was Audra Lindley, who played Mrs. Roper. Dave 22:49 Yeah, I can see that. Okay, you saying that makes me much more confident that I have the right person. I haven't Googled them yet. I'm going to do that so I can see a picture soon and see if it's matching. Tara 23:00 Yeah. Dave 23:00 All right. Are you ready? Are you excited? All right, show me Amy Madigan. Tara 23:06 Ding. Dave 23:07 Yep, that's who I thought it was. All right. So I knew her face, but not her career. Tara 23:11 I'm betting she goes up against Mayor Winningham for a lot of parts. Dave 23:16 All right, don't know who that is. Don't care to know. Tara 23:18 She's Anthony Edwards' wife. Dave 23:19 Don't care to know. All right, what about Laura Branigan? This one I'm not as confident about. Tara 23:25 Oh, I thought you would know her more. Dave 23:27 Well, this is my best guess. Maybe I'm right. She's a singer? Tara 23:31 Yes. Dave 23:31 Okay, did she sing Gloria? you? Tara 23:33 She sure did. Dave 23:34 All right. Woo. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Prizes, please. All right. Seth, if you were locked in a room with, oh, I forgot to do the food thing. Tara 23:44 I was going to say. Dave 23:45 All right, let's do it now. You can practically taste it with your eyes. Enough. I'm so sick and tired of hearing you people talk about food, food, food. Technically, we could have eaten Amy Madigan and Laura Branigan. Tara 23:58 Seth. Dave 23:59 If you were locked in a room with a bunch of comedians a la last one laughing who would absolutely make you break. Tara 24:05 Oh chris fleming i just talked about him in the main show this week his uh new special made me die laughing and he's been promoting it on a bunch of different podcasts and he's like even when he's not trying to be funny so funny dave well. Dave 24:19 Not to be like zero degrees of separation from the show but bob mortimer would make me. Tara 24:23 Crack up instantly. Dave 24:24 His stories are so insane. Tara 24:26 And stupid. You do love him. Dave 24:27 And he just comports himself very humorously. L Triple B, is there a show that you would prefer to be broadcast in a language besides English? Or a show that you've seen that was originally in another language that was made in English that you prefer in the original language? I had to really think about the first one. I think I would have enjoyed a Chinese version of Warrior. They did a pretty good job in that show with their internal rules of what you're hearing versus what you know was being spoken on the show. Tara 24:57 Yeah. Dave 24:58 Like if there was a Chinese speaker and an English speaker, they were conversing in English in the real world, usually. And if they weren't, then the Chinese would be subtitled. If there was two Chinese characters talking to each other, they would speak in English, but you would know that they were speaking Chinese to each other. Tara 25:16 Yeah, unaccented English. Dave 25:17 Yeah, but what I would like to see is just everything in Chinese is Chinese and everything in English is English and I read subtitles. That's fine. That's always my preference. So I would have liked to see that. And then my answer to the second question is, I always want to hear it in the original language if it's available. I don't want to watch or listen to a dub because they all kind of suck. You know, you can't capture what the actor is doing. you know like when you're on set versus you're just reacting to somebody else's acting i don't think you capture it so yeah department. Tara 25:48 Q which we've talked about as a lead topic and as a canon submission was based on a danish novel and i wish it had just been a danish show. Dave 25:57 Okay what i thought you're gonna say it would be really nice instead of speaking scottish they spoke english which would be great you know because who can understand scottish i. Tara 26:07 Think i get it mostly. Dave 26:10 There are a lot of Scottish shows that we have to turn the subtitles on in order to get a full understanding of what's going on. Tara 26:16 Well, it depends on the show. If I'm taking notes, then I would turn it on to make sure I super understand it. Dave 26:23 Diatho, aka Death Still, we're still autocorrecting to Death. What's your phone background, Tara? Phone background. Tara 26:31 It's a cutaway cross-section of the Tenenbaums house from the Royal Tenenbaums. Dave 26:36 Well, first of all, we have to talk about lock screen versus your background. Tara 26:40 Oh, okay. Sorry. My background is just black. I don't have anything behind all my apps. And I'll just say it. I hate it when people do that. It looks like trash. Dave 26:49 Yeah. Mine is plain dark, cool gray to slightly darker, cool gray at the bottom. Tara 26:55 Yeah. Dave 26:55 People with photos in their background or their springboard, as I believe is called, background, not to be trusted. Tara 27:02 Plus, you can't see the picture anyway with all your apps on it. So what's the point? Dave 27:06 I used to have Sandy on the cover for a while, and I have Knowlton on the iPad. That's what you're thinking. But I felt a little guilty that only one dog was on the iPhone even though it was a good photo. So right now, it's just a stock lock screen until I figure it out. So very boring. But I also don't like busy things on my phone. So I have a whole phone thing. Like the first screen of apps, that can be your main stuff, and that's an app. And after that, everything has to fit in page two in folders. Tara 27:33 Yeah. Dave 27:33 Yeah, we're not doing it. I'm not scrolling through 13 pages of stuff like some people in the house do. Anyways, next question. Rube Goldberg, I don't know where someone yells five, six, seven, eight. What do you do? Actually, you go first, Tara. Tara 27:51 Oh, I hide because I don't know any choreography, Dave. Dave 27:56 If they got the tune right, this was my first thought. One, two, three, four, five, six. They didn't get the tune right. I maybe say something like, well, you're correct so far. All right, Andrew, following up on the long running shows that you have quit, are there any that you relapsed on and started watching again after a multi-year hiatus? Tara 28:23 Yeah, we did that with The Walking Dead, I think a couple of times. Like we watched the first one or two seasons and then we dipped and then we came back to it when we heard it was good again. And then we stopped. Dave 28:31 I didn't remember that. And I don't remember any other examples because I'm pretty good at dropping shows. And there's a lot of shows out there. Tara 28:39 Game of Thrones, I feel like we dipped in and out too. Dave 28:42 No. Tara 28:43 Okay. Dave 28:43 We never really started to watch again. I mean, we watched so much for this because we were watching like every... Tara 28:49 Well, we watched a lot of premieres. Dave 28:50 Premieres, yeah. So I think that's what you're thinking of. Tara 28:53 Maybe. Dave 28:54 Joviagenda's back. Since the EHG universe had to reset after Beezolora ripped the hole in it, see last week's Extra Extra Outgrade, what is the one subtle change to this new EHG universe that makes it unsettling? In this new EHG universe, I truly, truly understand the difference between an Ask EHG question and an extra credit question. Raphael has our Ask Ask EHG question for you, dear listener. Following the recent deployment of the supposed-to-be-cute-but-is-actually-terrible-and-annoying-character-nickname bundle on the seven dials, I want to know, what character nickname makes you the most annoyed? Got a candidate for that? Put the name, the nickname, and give us a little justification in the Ask Ask EASG channel on Discord, and we'll be back next week with Judgment. Dave 29:48 It is time for the Tiny Cannon, Elth Level. Presenting this week, it's Emily May. Take it away, Emily. May. Better Things stars Pamela Adlon as Sam Fox in a loosely autobiographical role about her life. Tara 32:54 Had always dreamed of. And hey, it never hurts to hear that your ass looks good in those pants. Filled with these moving and optimistic sentiments, I hope that you will adopt this into the tiny canon of pep talks. Thank you. Thank you so much, Emily May. I'll go first. Obviously, you know, this is not a spoiler. As a person who unsuccessfully pitched this episode for the canon years ago, I am in the tank for it. It was it was a big canon pitch by me. Tara 33:21 I love this too. This is the sweetest moment in the episode. It does capture that certain feeling that you have at many ages in your life where you feel like you've already screwed it up too much. And it's like there's no going back on whatever you think you fucked up irretrievably. Like it's too late for you. This was sort of a mom saying it's not too late. It's never too late. Part of getting through life is just looking like you know how to do it. There's moments sometimes where you kind of look around and are like, wait, how did I get here? How did I ever get my first apartment? How did I get a job? How did I get a car? How did I do any of these things? Because they're all 700 teeny tiny decisions and progress that you make that gets you to adulthood. It's hard for me to remember being a teenager, but there's the point then where you're like, how would I ever even start any of this? But you will, because you have to. As time went on, I had a lot of issues with how parenting was portrayed on better things. But sweet, sincere moments like this are going to get my ass every time. You know, I don't believe what Sammy is saying every day that life is good, even when it sucks. I want to believe it. It's the kind of thing that should be in a pep talk. And she was right about Mikey Madison. Her future really was hers. She won a Best Actress Oscar for Anora last year. Dave 34:40 I was going to ask. She mentioned that, but I don't know who that is. Tara 34:44 Yeah, you never saw her. Dave 34:45 I mean, I know who it is because I saw her in the clip, but I don't know who she is. Tara 34:48 Yeah. Dave 34:48 You know, Amy Madigan, Mikey Madison. Yeah. Tara 34:53 You saw her in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. She was one of the Manson girls in that. Dave 34:56 Too. Okay. Tara 34:57 Yeah. Anyway. Dave 34:58 All right. Tara 34:58 Go ahead. Dave 34:59 Trying to think about how I, I just really didn't want to live with my parents anymore. Or rather, I thought it was going to be really fun not to live with them anymore. Tara 35:08 And I bet it was. Dave 35:09 It was great. I had the really shitty first apartment too, and I did not care. It was the basement apartment in a shitty little complex in a shitty part of town. I didn't care. The boiler room was right next door making all sorts of noises. It wasn't insulated, probably. Didn't care. My place. Fine. Kind of stank all the time. That might have been my fault. But like those moments where you sort of like overcome whatever and you're like, okay, this is going to be scary. But here we are. We did it. Just the fake it till you make it part of the pep talk rang true. I mean, it's a little, it was a little showy, but you know, it's TV. Tara 35:50 It's a show. Dave 35:50 I'm not made of stone. You know, you can tell it was very affecting for the characters as well. I mean, I think it's true that 98% of us walking around trying to figure out as we go, whether you're 18 and figuring it out or whether you're trying to figure it out, you know, you still a lot of times just have to like dive in and do it or buy the suit and go to the interview. Same deal. You just have to like jump in sometimes and they won't all be successes, but you got to do it and, you know, you'll figure it out. Yeah, I thought it was a nice little scene. I'm sorry we didn't induct this the first time. You seem very hurt about it. Tara 36:31 Okay. Dave 36:32 All right, great. Let's put this to the vote. Tara, Ariana, what's up? Tara 36:35 Yes. Dave 36:36 All right, me too. Sam's Pet Talk to Max from Better Things, you are hereby inducted into the Extra Hot Great Tiny Pet Talk Cannon. Dave 36:51 tolerate a loser. Nope. It is time for Not Quite Winners and Losers of the Week. I have two Not Quite Winners this week. First one is Anna Gasteyer winning her first Emmy Award at the fourth annual Children's and Family Emmy Awards for her recurring role as Carabatha on Robo Gobo. Tara 37:12 Nope. No idea. None of those words were in the Bible. Dave 37:18 You've got crabs, And my second winner of the week is the Lovejoy novel series. It is getting a new TV adaptation from Seesaw Films. If you recognize that name, that is a production company for current faves, Slow Horses. And no word on whether this is a revival or a reboot or sort of next generation take on it. Unknown yet, not cast, just that it's been optioned, basically. Tara 37:48 So Dave 37:49 Tara you have suggestion for the casting. Tara 37:52 Yeah I think I mean I assume if it's based on the novel series it's just going to be a remake yeah. Dave 37:57 Probably. Tara 37:58 So I would love to see Matthew Goode as Lovejoy. I think he would be kind of fun and raffish, you know, in the way that Ian McShane was in his youth. Dave 38:08 I mean, it wouldn't be that far from doing that to just being Lovejoy Jr., right? And his dad just pops in once in a while. Tara 38:15 Sure. Dave 38:15 Yeah. Gives him sage advice on the glue used on back manuscripts and whatnots. Tara 38:20 Yeah, maybe. I would think when, you know, Lovejoy Sr. is as old as he is, which is 83, good God, you might not want to make him like a key part of your production. Dave 38:32 That is a good point, because he's going to die soon. Tara 38:34 Well, hopefully not. Touch wood. Live forever, Ian McShane. Dave 38:40 We don't want to June Lockhart him. Tara 38:42 That's true. Dave 38:44 Not Quite Loser of the Week is the God of War TV show adaptation. the game's creator, just went apeshit on the first look image. Tara 38:53 So funny. Dave 38:54 It was just, I mean, he's not wrong. There is one photo that they released from, I'm going to guess the first day of shooting that just had a guy come in and take some pictures. And the game is about a I might get this slightly wrong, a demigod named Kratos, or maybe he's a god, full god. I forget how they framed it. And he has to go around killing all the other gods. That's his business. He just goes through the pantheons of whatever, Greek, Norse. I'm going to kill some gods. That's the game. Tara 39:20 Right. Dave 39:21 The picture is of him and his son. He's watching his son bow hunt, I'm going to guess. He's teaching him some things about bow hunting. Tara 39:28 Yeah. Dave 39:28 And he's a really, really angry character. That's his whole thing. He just likes to cut people and yell a lot. That's basically his character. Tara 39:35 Right. Dave 39:35 And he's teaching his son whatever, and he's bending down. And the creator said he looks like he's trying to take a shit in the forest. And I'm like, yeah, you're right. And he doesn't look angry like Kratos should be. And he's like, yeah, you're right. And he's like, what a shitty first impression for the show. And he's like, yeah, you're right. But also, why are you saying all these things in public? Tara 39:56 Yeah. Tell your group text. Dave 39:59 Tell your group text. Tara 40:00 Yeah. Don't get out ahead of this and give your fans a bad impression. of the show you're probably making quite a lot of money on my not quite winner of the week is stick the apple tv golf show which is adding as a recurring guest star for season two billy zane listen to. Dave 40:20 Your good friend billy zane. Tara 40:21 That's the only reason that i put it here because i don't care about stick and if no one is paying me to watch it i won't billy. Dave 40:29 Zane used to live in our neighborhood when we were in L.A., close enough that he would be spotted at the restaurants nearby. And this was, when did we live there? Tara 40:39 2012 to 2014. Dave 40:40 He's very handsome still, or he was back then. I don't know if he's been in a car accident or something since then. He's all Johnny DeFore now. Tara 40:47 No. Dave 40:48 Try to work in Johnny DeFore in too many episodes as I can. Tara 40:52 Oh, yeah. Your own little Ray Don Johnny Deform challenge. Dave 40:55 That's right. All right. Who's your not quite loser? Tara 40:57 My not quite loser of the week is Dropout TV, which got a lot of backlash from fans because they did a crossover with The Rookie. The episode that aired this week was there's a murder or a crime or something on the set of Game Changers, something we talked about in an all canon episode last year. And so a lot of like the show's personnel, the creator of Dropout, Sam Reich or whatever. I don't know if he's the creator. The guy who's in charge of it now. And a lot of the talent on it played, you know, heightened versions of themselves, Curb Your Enthusiasm style. But a lot of fans, because... those people in their real life are very outspoken about police violence. We're like, why are you partnering with this copaganda show? And so Sam Reich had to address it and said, you know, we're not going to incorporate it. It's not going to be a two-way crossover. You're not going to see the rookie in Dropout. But other than that, it was just sort of like, sorry, people felt bad. Like we wanted to bring our platform to a wider audience, even though they have a wide enough audience that they sold out Madison Square Garden. It was not a great apology as apologies go. Dave 42:05 Doesn't sound like an apology. Sounds like, I'm sorry, you're mad. Tara 42:08 It basically was. Dave 42:09 Yeah. This would be like the taskmaster of people going on Luther in an episode where Luther, just as all episodes, likes to beat the shit out of somebody in order to get information. Yeah. Has that vibe to it. Yeah. Well. Tara 42:21 Here's what he said. What do you say to people who are mad, basically? And also, they say at the beginning of this, it's an interview with Variety. We'll link it in the show notes, but they say it's an email interview, which already is like, okay, like this is being parsed by some kind of comms expert before you type anything back. I can't speak for the cast, but I'll speak for myself and say that the opportunity to expose Dropout to a big audience, one that's probably not already familiar with us, felt too good to pass up. We owe everything to our fans who are super passionate and hold us to a high standard. So it's perhaps inevitable that we upset folks sometimes. And then will we see the rookie episode incorporated into an upcoming episode of Game Changer. There are, as of yet, no plans for the collaboration to go the other way. And I'm sure if there were, there aren't now, probably, I would hope. Dave 43:06 I guess. Tara 43:07 But yeah, it's, you know. Dave 43:09 I mean, oh, wait, just a sec. What I heard when you read that was it was too good of a deal to pass up. So we didn't really care what was on the screen. Tara 43:17 About the ethics. Dave 43:18 Yeah. That's what I read in the first part of that. And the second part was, I'm sorry if you're offended. Tara 43:24 Yep. Dave 43:24 Yeah, bad look. Tara 43:25 Bad, bad, bad, bad apology. Dave 43:28 Oh, well. Tara 43:29 No. Dave 43:29 Not my problem. Tara 43:30 I'm going to continue to not be a subscriber. Dave 43:33 That'll show them. Dave 43:40 I wish when that went up, I could open my eyes really wide like a cartoon. There'd just be dollar signs in it. If I could have one magical trait, it would be that. Tara 43:48 That's it? That's the one? Dave 43:49 Yep. Tara 43:50 Okay. Dave 43:51 Or, or, or, or and, because it's related. What happens when I get hit in the head with a mallet? Tara 43:56 Yes. Dave 43:57 What happens? Tara 43:57 Fly out? No. Dave 43:59 Same thing. The old cash register things come up and it says what? Tara 44:03 No sale. Dave 44:03 No sale. Tara 44:04 Correct. Yeah. And you get a big bump that's pointy. Dave 44:07 You get a big bump and it aches with little ache lines. Tara 44:10 Anyway, welcoming grandpas. If it's this good now, imagine what kind of gold you are missing in the hour or so that we recorded before we came over here. Today's extra credit comes to us from Seacent. It was originally in Ask EHG, but it was too big and meaty for us to cover there. So it got to be in an extra credit segment instead. Dave 44:34 They're very different things. Tara 44:35 They are. I know. Seacent wants to know, what are your top five commercial villains? We have not compared notes. Dave 44:43 No. Tara 44:44 We've each got five. Are any of them the same? Who knows? Dave 44:47 Who knows? I think you should go first because I have extras. Tara 44:50 Clip one. Hey, Jen. Look! Dave 45:06 Oh, that guy. Tara 45:07 It's the Mucinex booger, for lack of a better word. It's a little clod of green mucus that taunts you about your cold and flu symptoms. Dave 45:17 Was that Will Arnett? Tara 45:18 No, it was Jason Manzoukas. Dave 45:19 Oh, Jason Manzoukas. Yeah, sorry. I knew I recognized his voice. Is that the one that used to be- TJ Miller. TJ Miller, and then TJ Miller fucked up his whole deal, and now he lost Mucinex? Tara 45:29 That's correct. He did. Dave 45:32 All right. Yeah, that's a good one. I have a related one that I'll play first. Tara 45:36 Great. Oh, hey, hi, I'm Dinker. Don't mind me, I'm just a dermatophyte. You know, a nail infection. All I want is to get in here and live under your nail. Dave 45:46 Live under your nail! That's when he lifts up your nail, like the hood of a car, and then crawls under it to infect you and then invites all his buddies over and you got nail problems now. But that was so unnerving. And still, when I think about it, I just don't want to think about nails coming off of their nail-y base. Tara 46:06 No. Dave 46:07 Something that I don't want for anybody. Tara 46:09 No, it's just, it's very bad. Dave 46:11 I mean, I should have looked it up, but is Tamasil still around? Did they have to like change their name because everybody was just grossed out by this ad? I feel like they should be punished in some sort of way for introducing us to Digger. Tara 46:25 Lamasil. Dave 46:26 Lamasil, yeah. Oh, Tamasil is from Arisa Development. Tara 46:29 That's Temosil. Dave 46:31 Make a T, make a tie, make a toe. Tara 46:35 Yeah you're right the nail is definitely worse there's a an ep last week's episode of the beauty when someone was going through the transformation so their nails fell off or it's real gross. Dave 46:47 Brendle fly from the. Tara 46:48 Fly when there's. Dave 46:49 He's at that point where you can just pull his nails out. Tara 46:51 Of his finger no thank you no this is the whole thing about like you know it's worse to watch someone experience a comparatively small nail related problem than it is to watch someone on screen like getting shot because you can't you don't know what it's like to get shot you know what it's like when you fuck up your nail though it hurts like a motherfucker yeah. Dave 47:11 If you had to choose between lamisil nail. Tara 47:13 Car hood action yeah or. Dave 47:15 The boys a guy sneezed in your penis and you blew up probably go for the boys. Tara 47:22 All right uh let's move on to my second clip. Dave 47:28 I'm just thinking about somebody who's never watched The Boys and is trying to parse what I just said. Good luck. Tara 47:34 I'm your hot water heater. You hardly know I exist. That's too bad. Because, good home. Make sure you have the right home protection. Call Allstate agent Tim Berryhill today. Oh. I'll state, obviously, we've talked about mayhem before, but I specifically chose this one because anything water-related is just like, it's too soon. It's too upsetting to me. Dave 48:11 Water's the worst. Tara 48:12 It is. Dave 48:13 I wonder, though, if you could not make the case that he is not a villain, but he is like a force of nature. He's, you know, like he just exists. Tara 48:23 Right. Dave 48:23 He is part of the cosmic makeup. Because I think one of the things about a villain is a villain thinks they're the hero of their own story. and mayhem is just an elemental force. Tara 48:34 Well, he is and he isn't. Like in other versions of the ad, he's like, I'm someone driving and texting. It's like he's always embodying something you don't want to cross your path. Dave 48:44 Okay. Tara 48:45 You know, so I would say he does still count as a villain. Dave 48:47 Yeah. Tara 48:47 Anyway, go next. Dave 48:48 You've convinced me. All right. My next one is from the product Calganite. I'm the spot maker. I live in your dishwasher, spotting, get Calganite. Kalgenite, the end of the Spotmaker. So the Spotmaker is a cartoon that exists superimposed on a real dishwasher. And he looks like a cross between the Riddler. He's wearing all green bodysuit, but he's got spots all over his suit. So like, wasn't the Spot a character in the... Tara 49:38 Suicide Squad. Dave 49:39 I thought it was the Spider-Man cartoon. The second one. Doesn't matter. Anyways, he's a comic book guy, the Spot. And he just loves fucking up your dishes. You go to all the trouble washing your dishes and you take them out and they got spots from the spot maker. How's he making those spots? I'll tell you how. That was just for Tara. Try to imagine what motion I was making just to Tara in that moment. White spots all over your dishes? Spot maker. Tara 50:07 Polka dot man was the one who was in the Suicide Squad. Dave 50:10 No, that's not the one I'm thinking of. There is a guy in the second Spider-Man verse movie that I think he has like basically put acne holes on the ground and then would go through them. All right. What's your next one, Tara? Tara 50:22 My next one is number three. We love our new home. There's so much space. We have a guest room now. But we have aunts. Joanie's here. For bundling made easy, go to geico.com. Hello. This is one of a series of ads for GEICO Home Insurance. where, you know, the joke is we have ants and you think they mean the insects, but no, they mean they have ant this and that infesting the house, going through your fridge, expired. That puts a lot of mustard on that. Nope, unattended. I just enjoy the ants. They're like, you know, kind of jerks, but again, sort of like mayhem, trying to be helpful as well, but just being irritating and asking after a friend request is one of the dorkiest things that a person could do, but it is something an ant would do and there's something sort of sweet about it. Dave 51:27 All right. My next one is probably the most just straight up self-aware villain of my choices. And I think the clip actually does not need any setup. Go ahead, judge me. I. Tara 51:50 First crunchy, swirly, CineDust-covered bite, I can't hide who I am. Dave 52:00 And the truth is, I don't want to. Must, CineDust. so the visuals are the cannibal cinnamon toast crunch square is approaching a very terrified other cinnamon toast crunch square and this guy has a carton of milk in his hand and he slowly pours it over this poor one and that is just like going towards the camera with his mouth and then the last little moment is this poor guy all in pieces on the ground in a pool of milk and the killer's just scooping them up with a spoon and eating them. Tara 52:37 True sicko shit. Dave 52:39 Yeah. So Cinnamon Toast Crunch villain, just putting it out there, eating his own kind. Tara 52:44 My favorite thing about all of your picks so far is that the music of any one of them could be perfectly used as the music in any of the other ones. Dave 52:52 Sure. Tara 52:53 All right. What I need to do to set up this one is that you're in a sort of Illuminati chamber where secret knowledge is being passed around. Oh, my God. 24th. Super Lotto! The real key to winning is your Super Lotto ticket. Do you remember that ad at all? Dave 53:34 I don't, but who's the villain there? Tara 53:36 Well, they're just, it's more of the vibe of like, there's some kind of Illuminati world planning going on behind this lottery, where they're sort of malevolent in a unspecified way. Dave 53:47 They're trying to promote a lottery, and they're suggesting there's an invisible hand guiding it. Tara 53:53 Yeah. Dave 53:53 You won't win. Tara 53:54 Well, that's what I feel is like the subtext. Dave 53:58 All right. I don't trust those guys. Tara 54:00 Well, no, that's the point. Dave 54:02 Yeah. Tara 54:02 Anyway, I wonder if you don't remember, I wonder if that was only a Western Canadian ad, because I definitely saw it as a kid. Dave 54:10 Let's go with a McDonald's ad from Back in Time. Back in Time. Tara 55:09 Ready. Where's the contest? McDonald's Land or McDonald's. Heartbreaking. Dave 55:15 No, it's not heartbreaking. It's hopeful. And it's an inspiration because Grimace used to be evil Grimace. He was introduced as evil Grimace. He was a foil for McDonald's Land, much in the way that eventually Fry Guys would be, right? Fry Guys were always stealing your fries. Tara 55:30 Yeah. Dave 55:30 They sort of took over the grimace role, evil grimace role. But evil grimace hoards, steals all the cokes and shakes and hoards of them. There's a picture of him just like with 17 cups on his belly. I just thought that was fascinating that he used to be evil. And there is another grimace thing coming later in the show. So you'll get double grimace. Tara 55:48 Okay. Well, my last one, when you listen to it, you have to imagine text being superimposed underneath the speaker to contradict all of his claims. And if you're of a certain age, you will remember this guy. Let's hear clip five. The amazing Isuzu iMark rated one of the best of the best by Car and, The Isuzu iMark. Now at your Southern California Isuzu dealer. Of course, that was David Leisure as Joe Isuzu, the huge liar. Dave 56:36 Those were so big in the day. Tara 56:38 They did so many of those ads. Like tons and tons and tons of them. Dave 56:43 Oh, it's the lying people's car. Tara 56:45 Right. Dave 56:48 Let's buy some lotto tickets. Tara 56:51 Back to you. Dave 56:52 All right. I have a few extras here. I won't bother playing my other McDonald's one, the Hamburglar. He's a classic. We all know him. But there is a commercial in which he's actually stealing hamburger students from McDonald's University. Tara 57:05 Oh, no. Dave 57:06 Like kidnapping them to take them away and kill them to eat them. Tara 57:09 Jeez. Dave 57:09 Ronald McDonald stopped it. Tara 57:11 Thank God. Dave 57:12 All right. My next one is fact, though, for Burger King. And there was a series of ads. I swear to God, called the Mad Cow ads. And they were around that time. They all feature Mad Cow, a mad cow who has been slighted by somebody. And here is one. It's called Makeout Point. It starts with a guy in a car really enjoying his whopper. And then somebody's angry about it. Hmm... Dave 57:56 Happened. Ah! I don't know if you heard it, but he calls the cow honey, and now the cow is behind the car. And the cow starts butting the back of the car. Stop it! You're mad! I see that! cheesy bacon tender crisp. Chicken so good, you'll cheat on beef. Only a BK. But what you don't see in this famous visual medium that is podcasting is the cow pushes the car full off a cliff. That guy is dead. But there's another one where the cow catches a guy at a motel eating a burger. So they're all basically like you're cheating on your cow. Tara 58:49 Yes. Dave 58:50 Husband or wife. Tara 58:51 Yes. Dave 58:51 And, you know, there's going to be consequences. Tara 58:54 Eep. Dave 58:54 Yeah. I thought that was pretty great. Next one is an old Captain Crunch commercial. Jean LaFoot, you barefoot pirate. What have you done with Captain Crunch? We know, torture. Torture? Oh, no. Not that. Now will you tell us? No. We're beaten. for eating the whole box. Captain Crunch from Quaker. No, for eating the whole box. Tara 59:59 It's Jim Backus, right? Dave 1:00:01 Oh, no, no, no, it wouldn't be Jim Backus back then. This is from the late 60s, because if you recognize the voices, That was Rocky from Rocky and Bullwinkle. And the whole cartoon is obviously done by the same animation house. Tara 1:00:15 Oh, Jay North. Dave 1:00:16 I also want to give a shout out while we're at Serial to not quite villains, the Trix Rabbit and Sunny the Cuckoo Bird from Cocoa Puffs. You know, they are a victim of their addiction. They're not quite villains, I would say. Yeah. So we just want to give them a pass on that. Other ones we're not going to play anything for. There was a really weird milk ad from Japan where they are talking about milk in class and the teacher wants them to shut up. So first she throws one piece of chalk at them and then Wolverine style flings three at once and then has like a special thing in her desk. She presses it and a whole desk full of chalk flies at these guys and they're blocking them all Matrix style. And then eventually she turns into a giant piece of chalk and flings herself at him. And it was all very weird and disturbing. Tara 1:01:05 Yeah. Dave 1:01:05 So milk teacher. Great film. All right. Who's next? Let's do crest. Alert the troops! They're protecting Toothopolis with some new gel! They, cavities! With new Crest gel! Tastes great! Crest! Crest! Do you remember the cavity creeps? Tara 1:01:44 I do. And I remember Floristat having a moment. Dave 1:01:47 Surprisingly good animation for this cartoon. It's very sort of Johnny Quest meets an actual comic book drawing. I thought for the time, it was actually pretty good. There wasn't any cheating of the animation. Tara 1:02:00 This is reminding me, like, because obviously you found so many good examples of a, I'm a thing that you want to buy a product to eradicate. It reminds me of the little talking fleas in the flea collar. Oh, yeah. That's too. Dave 1:02:13 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think my last audio one is going to be a classic. I was saving it because I thought maybe you would do it, but we didn't, and we have to acknowledge it. Tara 1:02:24 Annoyed hates hot quality pizza. Noid was on my long list because I feel like we've talked about The Noid before. Dave 1:02:55 Oh, sure. The Noid lasted a really long time. I think he's had a couple of revivals since. There was a video game starring The Noid. So The Noid was just everywhere. Like he was fucking all the hot actresses of the time. He was just like having the time of his life. Now, I have one I want to talk about just because I remember it as a kid. And I knew it wasn't going to be good, but I sought it out and I watched it. If you want to see a really big corporation make something really racist, You got to watch the Frito Bandito ads from the 60s and 70s. Tara 1:03:24 Oh, no. Dave 1:03:25 Frito Bandito is exactly what you think he is. He steals your Fritos and he is a Bandito. Tara 1:03:30 Yes. Dave 1:03:31 So you can imagine what he looks like as well. Tara 1:03:33 See. Dave 1:03:33 But at the end of it, they were talking about like, is there a Frito Bandito in your house? And it shows the dad like stealing some Fritos. And when he does, a big curly mustache grows on his face like the Frito Bandito. Tara 1:03:45 No. I'm like, oh, man. Oh, dear. Dave 1:03:48 Just keeps getting worse. Tara 1:03:49 Keep. Dave 1:03:50 Yeah. Dave 1:03:53 All right, guys, that is it for another episode of Extra, Extra Hot Great. We discuss whether or not we'd be down to follow the rest of the season of DTF St. Louis before answering your burning Ask EHG questions like, who's Amy Madigan and how do we watch foreign language shows? Emily May gave us an intimate talk about Better Things Tiny Cannon worthy pep talk. However, we noticed zero compliments about our butts. We celebrated those weren't quite the best and worst of the week and wrapped it all up with a look at our favorite TV commercial villains. Next up, it's Rooster. Rooster! That was not a rooster. What was that? Terrible rooster. I am David Teakle, and on behalf of Tara Arrieta. Tara 1:04:45 Listen, baby, your future is yours. Dave 1:04:46 And the absent Sarah debunting. Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time right here on Extra, Extra Hot Great.