Having A Little Chat About The Miniature Wife

Dave 0:12 This is the Extra Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 404 for the April 11, 2026 weekend. I am giant killer Roomba, David T. Cole, and I'm here with ungrateful prick up Monsanto, Sarah D. Bunting. Sarah 0:32 Triangular tomato. Boring. Dave 0:35 And Tara Arellano. Tara 0:36 Untitled on purpose. Tara 0:43 Welcome to Extra, Extra Hot Great, the podcast made possible by your support. Thank you so much for being here. And thank you for listening to us talk about The Miniature Wife, in which two decades ago, Lindy Littlejohn, Elizabeth Banks, wrote a bestselling novel that was adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie, a success she produced partly thanks to the support of her scientist husband, Les, Matthew McFadden. Since then, he has been working on an agricultural innovation to erase the memory of his huge flop with a GMO tomato, Les has developed a process by which plants can be shrunk way down to maximize how many can be grown on a given plot of land. The couple has recently worked through some of their issues through therapy and are committing to a new beginning with a new year. But when Lindy unwittingly helps Les secure the funding he needs to complete his project, Les wants to race back to work and postpone their new beginning for a year, and they're fighting about it when Les' debigulator goes rogue. The show is based on the, no pun intended, short story by Manuel Gonzalez. It was adapted for TV by Jennifer Ames and Steve Turner, who previously worked together on Goliath and Ash vs. Evil Dead, among others. All 10 episodes of the season dropped on Peacock April 9th. We got access to, Excuse me. We got access to all of them and may talk about any of them. Let's do the Chen check-in. Sarah, should our listeners watch The Miniature Wife? Sarah 2:12 I don't know if I'm going to keep going with it, but I did like it. So yes, try it. Tara 2:17 Dave? Dave 2:18 I enjoyed it. I'm going to say yes. Tara 2:20 I am also going to keep watching, but based on early impressions, I'm going to say this is an idea that might have worked better as a movie. I suspect that 10 episodes is going to turn out to be a lot. Sarah 2:31 I think so. Tara 2:32 Let's get into it. Sarah, I imagine you watching this without much interest until they got to the bad tomato that derailed Les's career. Did that, in fact, seize your attention? Sarah 2:41 I mean, it's the first note I took that a GMO tomato would taste like old man is absolutely accurate. I know we're not in the food, food, food section of the podcast, so I'll keep it short. But like all tomatoes have been ass for like five years. It's very frustrating as someone who has one tattooed upon her person. That did help reel me in. It wasn't the only thing that I was favorably impressed by slash liked more than I thought I would about the show. But I don't know. Bad tomato tweeting is never a bad idea if I'm your reviewer. Tara 3:19 All right. Well, what else did you like more than you expected? Sarah 3:22 I thought that based on the premise and her having this emotional affair and that he was going to do that thing that Matthew McFadden characters now in the 2020s do and the way that they do it. I didn't think I was really going to respond to that. It's kind of like not squirm comedy exactly, but it's just like, I don't know if I can watch this character type do this again. But the fight that they were having in the kitchen... Sarah 3:57 Leads to the debigulator spraying her and the inciting incident, I thought was very good and well-written and did a good job exteriorizing a lot of things that I think couples never exactly say out loud. Dying for Sex also did a pretty good job with that. And it's part of what appealed to me about that show is that they found a way partly with the writing and partly through the acting, which is uniformly good, I would say, in what I watched so far, of making it believable that people would be putting these points on these points out loud instead of just stewing about them. I would like to see McFadden go back to playing a slightly more confident, believably sexy character a la Ripper Street, but I think this is just his lane now and he's making good money on it, so good for him. But I thought it was going to be more of the same. And he did enough with it to impress me and keep me and to compel me. Tara 4:57 I had a note about this, too, because after Death by Lightning, this is our second time in six months talking about Matthew McFadden. And yeah, he is definitely hoeing a deep row in Cheerful Maniacs because there's a lot of overlap between his character here and Charles in Death by Lightning. Dave, what did you think of him here? Dave 5:15 I thought the two leads are caring a lot for this show. They are really good in their roles. Elizabeth Banks getting absolutely manic and her high effort panicking really sells the moments that start the end of episode one and the start of episode two. I thought she was really, really good at that. And as her mania increases, the further along she is in her new home, which is the doll home, in her home, the better it gets when she meets the action figure, space colon. Dave 5:44 Oh wait, space colon, space colonel. And then that action figure starts talking to her, just like sight unseen, starts suggesting things to her, and she instantly just goes along with it. These are the moments that I think are elevating this. It just came out as we're talking about it. So nobody here in the panel has been able to watch it all the way to the end of the ones I've seen. I'm liking the trajectory, but I do have that worry as well, which is like another seven episodes from now. Where are we going to be? Are we going to, is this shtick going to get boring? And it isn't just the trials and tribulations of a small wife. It is also this Silicon Valley story with Les's company. He thinks he's the smartest man in the room, and he's terrible with money, and he's terrible with people. And they rope in a tech bro VC guy to fund the last 10 yards of this project, and they don't read the contract. And basically, this VC company is going to own them in 30 days. And in those 30 days, he also has to figure out a way to re-embiggen his wife. And that's sort of the thing. Dave 6:47 So that's to say, there is more than just I'm small, help me. to deal with in the episodes to come. And there's also this, I would say, C-plot with this emotional relationship that she's having with one of her husband's coworkers. Dave 7:02 So there's more than just one thing there, but it still kind of feels like this should have been at the get-go. Not having seen it, feels like a six-episode series to me. But that said, it's well-constructed and it's well-acted, and I have no complaints about what I've seen so far. So maybe we can tap back in after we've seen it all and around the dial or something like that. But so far, I'm enjoying it. It's light fun. Tara 7:26 Well, speaking of light fun, though, and, you know, this goes back to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and the like, part of the silly pleasure of a story like this is going to be seeing tiny character interacting practically with props of everyday things that have been built to look giant. And I feel like the premiere should have gotten to the debigulation faster so that some of that could have been in the premiere. Dave, you agree? Dave 7:52 Absolutely. I'm thinking like halfway through the first episode, we should have had a debaiculation scene because this is sort of a problem. Are you building a project for the ages and you're going to build it for humans 10,000 years from now that have never heard of The Miniature Wife and they're going to watch it and then there'd be like at the end of episode one, holy shit, she's small. Or are you building it for me now having seen the trailer for a show called The Miniature Wife and I'm looking at the wife And she's not smaller than the husband. And I'm looking at my watch. I know it's coming. And you can just sort of shorthand all the beats before that. She's in an affair. There's a VC guy and, you know, he's up to something. That could have been the first 20 minutes. And then the last 20 minutes, she's having troubles being small. Sarah 8:36 Yeah. Tara 8:37 You could have even pushed the affair reveal to later in the season, too, after she's shrunk down. Anyway, Sarah, you also agree. Yeah. Sarah 8:43 They could also have skipped over the whole thing with her student and the emotional affair guy, like just pretending to be her book agent and turning her students work into the New Yorker. And then then it's in the New Yorker. Like, this is not how any of this works. And I don't really understand why we needed that aspect, that thread of her panic. There were other ways to do that, or you could just hint at something going on with a student or a submission or her struggling with, as her husband puts it, during this fight. You turn in a book report on your fucked up family, and you've never really been able to recapture the magic. I don't think you necessarily needed to have that extra thing on. You could have taken that off and then moved up the debigulation. Because once we've seen the pissy cat in a Christmas sweater, it's called the miniature white. Let's get to her fleeing fluffy. we know what we're doing here. Dave is right. Dave 9:48 The whole thing with the New Yorker was a little muddy for me because I never really got the sense of knowing exactly where that submission was in the process at the New Yorker. Tara 9:56 Right. Dave 9:56 Like she didn't open up the latest New Yorker and see that what she's looking at is an editor's copy. Tara 10:02 Yeah, proof. Sarah 10:03 Yeah, proof. Dave 10:04 So why couldn't she then just in a panic call them and say, I didn't do this. I don't know how this happened. It's not my poem. Do whatever you need to do to stop it or run interference for what you're going to publish. I'm washing my hands of this. I wasn't involved in this whatsoever. Like, I didn't understand that. Like, they didn't foolproof that part of it to the point where I'm like, this is not a crisis that is unsolvable. Tara 10:26 Yeah, you're right. It's not in the issue yet. And even if it's something where you have to get your agent involved so you're both on a conference call with them and explain, some weirdo I barely know made a mistake, blah, blah, blah. Like, I'm sure the New Yorkers dealt with worse. Sarah 10:41 Yeah, which would have happened weeks ago when she got edits on the story. Like the New Yorker is just going to be like, oh, it's the brilliant Lindy. Tara 10:49 Yeah, no notes. Sarah 10:50 We'll just publish it without changing a word. LOL. Tara 10:54 The character of Lindy is not easy to play even before she has been shrunk. This is someone we understand has been very angry for a long time. She pushes the audience away with her deep unpleasantness in a total lack of vanity from Elizabeth Banks. Talk a little bit about your impression of her because I watching her here be so, so hateful. I was reminded of her covered in rib sauce in Wet Hot American Summer and just her being always, since we've known her, a beautiful woman who will go for broke to sell a joke in a way that I think like no one else is doing it like her for me except Emma Stone. Dave 11:30 I think part of it is that she is also sort of a medium to big time producer as well. Tara 11:37 And director. Dave 11:38 When a project comes along that needs to be clinched I feel like she can step in there and then will give it her A-game because she is invested either directly or knows what's at stake as a producer for something. You know what I mean? Like, just sort of pride of ownership or just knowing the stakes and what can be on any particular person's shoulders. She just seems to be going for it. You know, she doesn't feel the need to have the character's edges softened, rounded off. And it does pay dividends. Like when she is going crazy and mad, like you're like, this seems like genuine. I have to leave the room craziness that I've seen in my own life. But inside of a comedy program trapping where it's like, oh, this would never quite happen in real life. But it seems absolutely believable that it's happening in the world of Les's crazy mad scientist experiments. So I thought she really brought it. And McFadden's current sort of energy in the roles that he's getting plays off really well on that. Tara 12:38 Other people getting caught in a niche Matthew McFadden style, perhaps Zoe Lister Jones playing a ball busting taciturn taskmaster. I was not surprised to see her in a role like this. And Dave, we, I mean, relatively recently watched her in her arc as Fawn, whatever, and New Girl, the city council woman. Dave 12:59 Oh, it's her. Tara 12:59 Fawn Moscato. Dave 13:00 Okay. I knew I recognized her. I just couldn't figure it out. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, in the first couple episodes, she is basically, yeah, the stern taskmaster has to turn this ship around and get it going and make sure they can reambigulate the corn. And then in the third episode, when McFadden brings his cat in for an experiment and successfully shrinks his cat, and she absolutely falls in love with the small Mr. Magoo, is very, very endearing. So it's not like a one-note character. But I enjoyed her. I didn't really realize that was her lane. So, you know, that didn't bother me. But like her turn where she just turns into goo because there's this tiny little grape-sized cat in her hand. I mean, you know, one couldn't understand that. Tara 13:45 As soon as you see her with that bob, you can tell what kind of character this is going to be. She's showing up with her fuck-ass bob with no fucks to give. Dave 13:53 Yeah, her and what's-her-nuts, Cate Blanchett from Indiana Jones. Like, all right, I know what this is. Tara 13:58 Oh, yeah. Dave 14:04 Oh, me, oh, my. It is time for a little something we like to call Ask EHG. And we won 12 Grammys this year for the theme. So congratulations, us. All right. It's time to spin the wheel of judgment to see who will judge last week's Ask Ask E.H.G. question. Here we go. Big spin. Oh, 95 right in between 10 and 100. Dang. All right. It is Tara. Tara, you're the judge. Tara 14:47 Last week's Ask Ask E.H.G. question came from Diana, who wrote, From the How I Met Your Mother department, What show's ending was so egregious that it completely negated everything that came before? Had a couple of runners up. Dan Casino writes, There are a lot of shows that have bad finales because they were unexpectedly canceled, parenthetically. Quantum Leap, Westworld. Or because the showrunners weren't that smart and got in over their heads. Lost, How I Met Your Mother. But the worst finale has to be one where the showrunners had plenty of time to work, knew exactly what they were doing, had the benefit of a previous finale that didn't work and still betrayed everything the show was supposed to be about. I am, of course, talking about Gilmore Girls. Thematically, the show was about Lorelai trying to reconnect with her family while making sure that her daughter didn't make the same mistakes that she did, namely getting knocked up by some rich asshole in a misguided attempt at rebellion. So what does Rory do in the finale? Repeat her mother's mistakes, note for note. Doesn't help that by the end of the Netflix revival, Rory had become a monster, but finishing your story with all that love, effort, and sacrifice didn't work. Time is a flack circle. Bye-bye now. Also, justice for Lane and Paris. Christ, did anyone come out of that with a satisfying ending? And Eric, without a K, tagged onto that, saying he was sure that the four words that Amy Sherman Palladino has long said she knew were going to be the last in the series were supposed to have been, I'm pregnant, me too. Tara 16:15 Monty writes, MASH spends 11 years in the Korean War, then the finale just, what, declares the war over? Come on. But our winner, and he went on for a while, so strap in, but I had to reward this kind of effort, is Kevin C., who names Star Trek Enterprise. Kevin writes, the rumor is that the original showrunners came back to the finale and didn't care about what the later, better showrunners had achieved. They managed to actually make a character beloved? Cool, let's kill him off for no reason at all. They managed to create a compelling ensemble with storylines the audience would love to see come to some sort of conclusion? Cool, let's make this whole episode about Riker instead. Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis are 15 years older than they were in the TNG episode we're referencing? Cool, let's set these scenes literally in between scenes from that episode. The last shot of its eponymous series was the fucking Enterprise D from TNG and a recycled Patrick Stewart voiceover. Sorry they didn't like their own show, but apologizing for it the way they did. Tara 17:18 In this finale was a complete fucking insult to the audience. Wow, that is a lot of passionate opinion about Enterprise. Thank you, Kevin C. Dave 17:27 Christ, that was a long road. Tara 17:28 Yeah. So DM Dave to get your sticker. Well earned. Dave 17:35 You just finished the song for me. Hit me up. I'll give you a sticker. You have to be honest. All right. Let's get into your questions for us this week. First one comes from Dr. Calhoun. It's time for a Joey revival. What's Joey up to now? Tara. Tara 17:50 Joey's soap opera got canceled, so he's mostly doing cameos now. Sarah. Sarah 17:54 Joey's about to land the second male lead on a when-calls-the-heart type of show called Smell of the Sierras. Kind of late career, set it and forget it part that covers alimonies and a timeshare in Tahoe without requiring too much prep. Trouble is, the showrunner wrote the part for her ex, Jack Wagner, playing himself, and Wagner's determined to play it himself. Hijinks ensue. Dave. Dave 18:18 Joey is so bad at his attempt at manosphere podcasting that it turns around to be the best anti-manosphere podcast out there. Tara 18:26 All right. I like that story, Fran. Dave 18:29 AEO 1230. Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes have a new non-recap podcast where they just talk about whatever. What two actors from the same show do you like to hear shooting the shit with friends? Sarah. Henry. Sarah 18:43 Mike Esteve and Johnny Ray Rolly Diaz from Primo. Dave 18:47 Just cause yeah I like that Dave I'm gonna go for Maximum Carnage here so Krista Miller and Harrison Ford from Shrinking Harrison Ford what the fuck is this. Tara 19:01 I'm gonna project forward in time and say Jake Johnson and Keith David who will be co-stars in NBC's private. Dave 19:08 Investigator sitcom. Tara 19:10 Coming this fall we hope. Dave 19:12 How many hours in a day do you think Keith David sleeps? Because he is in everything now. Tara 19:17 He works. Dave 19:18 You turn around, he's just there. He's like, can I get that coffee for you? Oh my God, Keith David, thank you. And he's like, you know, that'll be $20. Sarah 19:25 Actually, I wasn't talking to you. I was doing a voiceover for an A&E true crime show. Anyhow. Dave 19:29 What? Renzi, which is the more dangerous college, Hudson U or UC Sunnydale? So is Hudson U a law and order thing? Yes. Sarah 19:39 It's fake Columbia The most dangerous place on earth Alright. Tara 19:44 I mean, I'm curious to see if we agree, but I think statistically Hudson Yu, because I think people are just getting killed one at a time. My memory of UC Sunnydale is like monsters have higher individual kill counts. So just on a statistical basis, probably Hudson Yu is less dangerous. Dave 20:04 But not for loaners who keep to themselves. It sounds like you're in peril if you're in with a tight group and you're moving as a group in the public. Yeah. You can get big bad. Tara 20:12 Could be. Sarah, what did you think? Sarah 20:14 Well, dangerous or deadly? I mean, historically, in terms of sheer body count, you've got to say UC Sunnydale, but that hell mouth was canonically closed, right? So now it's probably Hudson University since two of the three franchise shows are still on. And I think your chances of becoming the victim of a felony are higher, given that you're including SVU's bailiwick. You may be marginally less likely to get killed outright, and it will be by a human and not as a result of a spell. But that's a tough one. Deadly, Sunnydale, but dangerous generally, I'd have to say Hudson University. Tara 20:58 Yeah, good call. Dave 20:59 That's the kind of deep analysis you want from Sarah Deeper. I didn't think of that. Sarah 21:02 I'd try. Dave 21:04 Semantics change the answer completely. Portland Orc I, a question primarily for the Canadians of Extra Hot Great. Are you familiar with the show North of 60? If so, what are your thoughts or opinions? Tara 21:17 North of 60 is a show I only know from seeing promos during CBC's 5 p.m. syndicated airings of The Simpsons. And otherwise, I have never seen a second of it. Dave. Dave 21:28 All right. It's a Canadian mom show. Tara 21:31 Yes, it is. Dave 21:31 Before I heard Tara's answer, I went over to Polly Market and put a $100 bet that she would say her mom watched it religiously. Sarah 21:39 Oh, yeah. Tara 21:40 Well, way to lose our money, Dave. Damn it. North of North. I have opinions on that, but that's not what you asked. Dave 21:45 No. and with an e fuck mary kill hbo fictional bosses edition valerie cherish selena meyer deborah vance those are your choices sir. Sarah 21:56 I do not have a solid enough grounding in any of their shows to do this in any other way but based on vibes i'm gonna fuck valerie cherish seems like she'd either try really hard or not at all either way probably over quickly mary deborah vance marginally less horrible to live with than the other two in a question mark. And then I'm killing Selina Meyer. I am sorry to the Secret Service. Tara. Tara 22:20 I'm going to fuck Selina. She would understand it's just business and not get attached. I would marry Deborah also. She knows how to live elegantly. And I would kill Valerie, who is sweet, but I just don't think that we would have that much in common. Dave. Dave 22:36 I answered the same as you, Tara. Tara 22:38 Oh. Dave 22:38 Yep. Very nice. Jovial Jen, after hearing about hot ice cream, I'm wondering, what is a food that should only be served hot or cold in any other way is disgusting? What a weird question. How long do we have? How many foods that are hot you don't want cold and how many cold foods would be terrible hot? I'm sorry. This will be a podcast about food forever because that's how long this answer could be. I will just give you one. Don't serve guacamole hot. Tara 23:05 Oh, man. Dave 23:06 Sarah. Sarah 23:10 Deli salads should not be hot or even room temperature but then there's always that club sandwich exemption there are so many foods that are better hot i guess but also just fine cold. Tara 23:21 I'm. Sarah 23:22 Not a hot booze guy so i'm gonna answer beer and i don't care for grog or hot toddies or any of that either so that's my answer get. Dave 23:30 Ready for 10 minutes on hot lettuce from tara areana. Tara 23:33 Here we go god no hot lettuce is the worst no thank you because that is one of the foods i thought of oh arch deluxe truther a eating a cold burger not even even though i wouldn't put lettuce on i would there's. Dave 23:45 A lot of food i will eat cold. Tara 23:47 Happily pizza yeah pasta sure but. Dave 23:50 A burger no it's gotta be at least yeah no. Tara 23:53 While i was answering these last night i was eating the leftover velveta shells and cheese i had for dinner like oh there was like this much left and And I ate it as a snack like five hours later. And they were perfectly fine cold. But anyway, I don't want to drink a melted popsicle either. Dave 24:09 Diatho, what is the best form of Cheeto? Tara 24:13 It's paws. Dave 24:14 Oh. Tara 24:15 But only the version from the 90s. Because at that time, it was a crunchy Cheeto style in the shape of a paw. Whereas when they brought them back like a couple of years ago, they were puffs. It was puff style in a paw shape. So the kind they don't make anymore. My sister and I were obsessed with Cheetos paws for however long they made them. Dave 24:37 So they're crunchy, but they're also sort of like medallion-y shaped. Tara 24:42 Yes. Sarah 24:42 Or like more like a cracker form factor? Tara 24:45 Sort of. I mean, they're like, they're more 3D than a cracker. Dave 24:48 It's more nuggety. Tara 24:49 Yes. Nuggety is perfect. Sarah 24:51 Oh, I see. Okay. I used to be a puffed guy as a kid because that was the kind that my mother didn't get. And especially the balls, teehee balls. But yeah, a famous original crunchy. Because the puffed ones are just, even in ball form, they just will stick in your molars forever. It's amazing how many foods I've had to forswear because I have to fucking live with them for another 36 hours. Even after brushing my teeth multiple times. And I'm out like super grainy brown mustard. Bye, girl. Dave 25:27 That's sad. Sarah 25:28 It is. Dave. Dave 25:30 I like crunchy like Tara. I like puff like Sarah, even though she cannot enjoy it anymore. And it's very sad. Tara 25:36 That is sad. Dave 25:37 But gun to my head, I would go puffs. As a kid, my favorite treat from the store was the inexplicably super long, clear, crinkly, super crinkly bag of IGA brand cheese logs. You put one in your mouth, you get your tongue under it, you smoosh it up against the roof of your mouth, and then you eat the rest. And then after about 10 minutes of that, your mouth is just absolutely shredded and you can just looks like a cave. Sarah 26:09 Also a problem with crunchies too. Yeah. Dave 26:12 Crunchy has better flavors, generally speaking. You can't get the cheddar jalapeno flavor in a puff, for example. Sarah 26:19 It's a better ratio also. Yeah. Dave 26:21 A flavor? Sarah 26:22 Same idea as the mini peanut butter cups. In my opinion, the chocolate-peanut butter ratio at the smaller size is better. Dave 26:31 We can't turn this into a peanut butter-chocolate ratio discussion, but you're absolutely incorrect. Tara 26:36 But I'm sure someone will ask that next week. All right, save it. Dave 26:39 We'll save it. The perfect peanut butter-chocolate ratio question could go next week. Sarah 26:44 I think actually what I meant was fun-sized Snickers. I retract my PB and Chalk statement. Dave 26:50 Phew! Tara 26:50 I found a picture of the 90s version of the pause and I put it in the chat. We'll put it in the show notes as well. So you can see how they have like a hole in the middle. So it satisfies both the crunch of the crunchy, if that's what you want. But you also can let them melt on your tongue because they're so big. Dave 27:07 Right. Sarah 27:07 And that's a lot of good surface area to get that delicious carcinogenic cheese dust. Dave 27:13 Have you had the Halloween bag of bones Cheetos? I'm wondering if they are sort of the successor to this. Tara 27:20 Uh, I don't think so. Dave 27:22 No, okay. Tara 27:22 No. Sarah 27:23 I don't think so either. Tara 27:23 But you, Dave, you know that I grew up on Hawkins Cheesies. Those were the cheesies that Saskatchewan had. Dave is looking disgusted. So I graduated from those to Crunch It's, which is what Canada's version of Cheeto Crunchies were at the time with a mouse on the bag instead of Chester Cheetah. It was very cute. Dave 27:40 Yeah, Hawkins tastes like medicine. You got a weird chemical thing going on. We can't get into this. Tara 27:44 We can't get into this. Dave 27:45 Well, they don't, yeah, Regina, they don't know how to make snacks. Tara 27:47 That's true. There might be some Canadians who are pro Hawkins. Sarah 27:50 That's why Tara left. Tara 27:51 It's not what I prefer now, but I did love them at the time. Dave 27:54 All right. Here's one just for Sarah. It comes from Cocktail Ken. What is Sarah D. Bunting's brown liquor of choice? Sarah 28:01 Never scotch. Let's start there. Peanut or not, all tastes like disinfectant to me. Do not at me. More for you. I generally keep a range of bourbon and rye on hand. The ideal preferred bottle, if I had to pick one, is going to be a two-way. It's perfectly good sipping whiskey, but it's not too, quote, dear to go into a mixed drink. So my go-tos for that are Larceny Bourbon. That is from Heaven Hill Distillery. It was bought for me by my esteemed colleague, Eve Beatty, and it is quite delicious. Good two-weyer. Wyoming Whiskey makes a small batch bourbon. That's very delicious. And Fort Hamilton Distillery's Double Barrel Rye. Honorable mention slash pouring one out to Van Brunt's Stillhouse, now closed. That was the site of the Mark and Sarah Talk About Songs live show, and their Campfire Whiskey was very campfiry. Everything you want about the suggestion of a s'more in whiskey form and none of the annoying assembly and gooey sweetness. So those are my answers. And if you want to get in a fight about which bullet whiskey is better or whether it's not good, we can do that. You can absolutely at me about that, but don't try to make me like scotch. Won't happen. Dave 29:16 So what I'm hearing is scotch tastes like crotch. So give rye a try. Tara 29:21 Nice. Sarah 29:22 Yes. Dave 29:22 What That is two-way whiskey. Sarah 29:24 Two-way whiskey. Either it's good enough to sip on its own, drop a cube in it, but you don't feel like, oh, it's such a precious. Tara 29:32 It's so special. Dave 29:33 Got it. Sarah 29:34 Delicate flour that you can't dump some red vermouth and bitters in it and enjoy your life. Dave 29:39 Okay. Got it. Diana asks, when you go to Costco, do you hit all the sample tables? Also, while you're there, what is your go-to food order from the Costco cafe thingy? Tara 29:50 I could have just stopped after a cafe. Costco cafe. Dave 29:55 But I love saying thingy. It's a fun word. Tara 29:57 All right. Dave 29:57 Whatever. I'm not quite sure what to call something. Although this thingy is spelled incorrectly. It should be two E's, not I-E. Tara 30:03 Oh, disagree. Sarah 30:04 No. Wrong. Dave 30:05 Well, it's just because it's so thingy, it has two E's. Sample people at Costco are the fucking worst. Oblivious to the surroundings. Craven for their free food. And then it is block aisles. Here I am trying to get to the fucking four pack of bread or whatever. I need my 17 pounds of eggs. And here they are. What do you got there? I'm going to pretend I'm interested so I can get a second sample. And then I'll be on my way. I'm not going to buy any of this. Terrible people. And I don't think I've ever actually ordered anything from the cafe. Tara 30:41 Yeah, you get a drink sometimes. Dave 30:43 Being a vegetarian, you know, can't have the famous hot dogs, so. Tara 30:48 I feel like I can't remember the last time I saw a sample station at Costco. I don't think ours does that that much. Well, I guess I don't notice because, I mean, that's the answer, I guess. I don't care about samples and don't have them. Sarah 31:01 They're like human bollards and you're just trying to drive around them? Tara 31:04 Basically. Dave 31:05 At a given time, there's 40,000 sample people at Costco. Tara 31:08 I never noticed that. Dave 31:09 Wow, crazy. Tara 31:10 And my order is, of course, the classic, the $1.50 hot dog and a half Diet Pepsi, half Pepsi. Sarah. Sarah 31:18 I live in Brooklyn. The Hamilton Avenue Costco is a wipeout with no helmets situation. It's not for babies. You're sprinting through and getting the fuck out. So I'm not hitting any sample tables. I'm not fucking around with a food order. I'm just trying to live. Tara 31:36 Dave recently tried to go to Costco on a Sunday, and it was one of the dumbest things he'd ever done in his life. Sarah 31:42 Yeah, that's real dumb, Dave. Dave 31:44 Well, I wasn't sure if it was going to be less busy because all the business people are enjoying their weekend. But no, it's just all the families now going out there and again, bringing more chaos at the table. Not only do you have the sample crunch at every intersection, now you got kids wandering around. Sarah 32:00 Leaving dirty diapers next to the giant jars of mayonnaise. Yes. Dave 32:04 I'm not going to get out of the way. They're going to be dead. Tara 32:07 That's right. Dave 32:07 Anyways. So there you go. All right. Rube Goldberg. What is your preferred amount of pulp in orange juice? Thank you. Tara 32:15 None. Don't make me chew my drink, Dave. Dave 32:18 Normal. No pulp is weird, Tara. Just go drink some McDonald's orange drink. Why don't you, Sarah? Sarah 32:24 Jesus. No, Tara's right. Sorry. Zero. Why buy it if I have to do work? Tara 32:32 Thank you. Dave 32:33 Your Ask Ask EASG question this week comes from LBBB. They ask, What's a serious crossover that did not happen, but you wish did? It doesn't have to match up time-wise. You can do something from the 60s and today if you want. Go nuts. Go to the Ask Ask ESG channel in Discord. Put your answer there. You can also, if you're not on Discord, email me, david at cole.fyi, and I will put it in there for you. We'll be back soon with judgment on that. Dave 33:00 It is time for the extra, extra hot, great Tiny Cannon presenting this week. It's Sarah. Sarah 33:05 It is. Hi. Didn't we have a question recently about what happens if you don't close the food, food, food portal? Tara 33:12 Yes. Sarah 33:13 I don't know what happens if you close it and then you do a Tiny Cannon about snacks. We're going to find out. Oh, God. I'm scared. There's only Zool. Hi. Okay. so you could argue that Beverly Hills 90210's first season episode, Slumber Party, has a case for the full canon. I advanced that argument to an extent in Tara's and my very special 90210 book, nodding to Hall of Fame one-off TV bitch Amanda and her non-credibly temporary reliance on diet pills as 90s classics. The episode is also when the show is finally its recognizable core self. The gang, as we would come to know it, is beginning to cohere, the PSA aspects take a backseat to capital D drama, and the characters are the ones that we mostly see going forward, especially Tori Spelling's Donna Martin. Prior to Slumber Party, the show couldn't really seem to settle on a character for Donna. Sometimes she was a smirky Lieutenant B to Kelly's queen, when she wasn't an affectless party girl whose parents left her alone in a McMansion most weekends. But in Slumber Party, she is the, well, canonical Donna. Sarah 34:23 Ditzy, unsophisticated, unable to participate in Amanda's skeletons in the closet game because she has neither skeletons nor game. Well, not romantically anyway. As a snacktician, she might be a goat, as we'll hear in clip one. Sarah 35:00 You're disgusting, other Slumber Party attendees. Adding that shot of salty savory to a bowl of ice cream is a fantastic idea, one that I actually means-tested, and I can say it is delicious if you are a salted caramel-slash-take-five-bar guy like me. In later seasons, the show couldn't stop telling us what a talented polymath Donna was, but when it came to late-night craving gastronomy, she actually was a fucking genius, and I hope you'll put her two scoops and a Redenbacher topper into the extra, extra hot, great, tiny snack cannon. Tara 35:34 Thank you, Sarah. Dave, I feel like the lesser versed 90210 viewer, you should go first. Dave 35:40 The 90210 by osmosis? Tara 35:42 Yes. Dave 35:43 I have a question and I understand this is subjective to the people that are judging it, but I just want to get Sarah's take on it. Are we considering the snack presented in this scene for the canon? Like, here is a snack suggestion by the show Beverly Hills 90210 as told through these characters, or are we judging the snack scene? Do you get my gist here on the difference? Sarah 36:08 I do, because I did consider mentioning the extremely wonderful Doritos bag fonts and loving close-up of Doritos entering transparent bowl. We are also treated to in that scene, someone is in the back of the shot eating like chocolate-covered Oreos or something. Or actually, that's the cookie that Amanda says leave the whole box later, I think. There are some really good and well-presented snacks in the scene. But where I was coming from was, this is a snack that made me want to try it. Dave 36:42 Okay. Sarah 36:42 But your criteria are your criteria. Dave 36:45 Yeah. Sarah 36:46 Okay. As we have found many times in the famous original canon. So if you're going for Doritos font and that's your premise, I can't argue and won't. Dave 36:56 Are you a highly suggestible type would absolutely want to put this in the can and they're like, oh, yeah, ice cream and popcorn. I want that. I don't think I want popcorn in my ice cream just because I'm worried about the non-center part of the kernel turning into mush. And I watched ahead of what you heard. And there is a scene where you see Tori Spelling shoveling it into our mouth. But the ice cream has been on set for a while. So it's that sort of room temperature ice cream now. And it looked absolutely disgusting. It looked like, you like corn chowder? Try this. And you're like, oh, that tastes nothing like corn chowder. They didn't make it appealing inside of the show. But what I did like was the audacity of the idea. Popcorn and ice cream, you're a madman. I know some people put M&Ms in their popcorn. Sarah 37:44 Yes, same idea. Tara 37:45 Me. Dave 37:46 But I don't think popcorn and ice cream has really hit that level of popularity. Sarah 37:53 So not my fault. Dave 37:55 Did this episode fail society? Perhaps. Did I enjoy? Sarah 38:00 I'm trying to make amends. Dave 38:03 Was the path to discovering this a good scene? Yes. Is Amanda a super C? Boy, is she ever. Tara 38:11 Yeah. Dave 38:11 And that line, like, just after where she says, if you say so, I think is what she says, just talking about, like, how much they love snacks and why they're good. And she just, like, says, if you say so. And then, like, they're all like, well, you've taken the fun out of this. Tara 38:26 Yeah. Dave 38:27 Come back to me. But I'm going to weigh those two axes into the canon. And I'll come up with my answer after time. Tara 38:35 Okay. Well, I love a salty, sweet snack. I get this in theory. I do eat M&M's and popcorn. In practice, and I'm curious, so Sarah, did the popcorn not just get totally soggy as soon as it hit the ice cream or did it maintain its crispiness? Sarah 38:51 Integrity? Tara 38:52 Sure. Sarah 38:52 I have tried this a number of times with a number of different pops corn. Tara 38:58 Okay. Sarah 38:59 Fresh, hot popcorn, like it works, but I mean, it does, like there's a little bit of melting. but you are kind of having to like assign pieces of popcorn to discrete bites and that's fine so that way like you just put it on the top you eat it not slicing it but you know what i mean like it's not it doesn't look like goopy soft serve that overwhelmed the popcorn like it looks in the later scene when don is eating it here. I found that if you really are wanting a softer ice cream experience, but you still want the popcorn to maintain integrity, you get a bag of, I mean, Pirate's Booty is pushing it in terms of like the flavor profile. Bachman's popcorn or the kind of popcorn you get at the ballpark tends to have been sitting long enough that it's denser and then it will maintain its structure, if that's a concern. I don't really care about it, but I'm not a texture, pay attention to her. Tara 40:00 Okay. So instead of popcorn straight out of the microwave, you're going like a bag of the dark yellow popcorn that you see at the grocery store that's already made. Sarah 40:10 Yeah. But either way, just keeping it on the top and then not folding it in. Like she said, like, have you ever mixed it in or like whatever her take on it is that looked like soft serve ice cream that had been folded, popcorn had been folded into it. Tara 40:26 Right. Sarah 40:27 Practically speaking, that's not how it works because ice cream has more coherence out of the freezer, so you just put it on the top and then... Dave 40:34 But also, there's a reason why Dairy Queen doesn't have a popcorn blizzard. Tara 40:39 We are. All right. Back to my views of this pitch. Season one, Donna coming up with this snack as a self-consciously attention begging quirk in the manner of normie girls throughout history who have tried to posture as weirdos by sticking their tongues out in photos or becoming a meme by putting a bag of chips on their head at the supermarket. You know the one. And this is a perfect way to define Donna's character as the blonde who is not Kelly. And so for that reason alone, even if I don't want to eat it personally, I have to acknowledge it and I have to respect it. All right. Back to you, Dave. Dave 41:12 OK, I agree with you there. It is a good character shorthand. It is very efficient as her being this type of student slash person and not the other type. You know, everybody's got their lane in a teen soap and this is hers. Quirky, like, Andrea could be quirky, but she is incredibly stupid as well. Tara 41:34 She has a learning disability, Dave. Get it right. Dave 41:37 Oh. Sarah 41:38 Well, she's also stupid. Tara 41:39 She is also stupid. Sarah 41:40 She got married to David. Spoiler. Tara 41:43 She did it. Dave 41:43 I think it is successful in that regard. As far as the snack itself goes, I'm less enthusiastic about that, but I will give points for moving the ball towards what should have been the end zone, which is ice cream with coated popcorn, like a box of Cracker Jacks in your ice cream that have a coating around them will stop them from getting soggy. Sarah 42:06 Oh yeah, also acceptable. Tara 42:07 Yep. Sarah 42:07 Also acceptable. Perfect hack. Dave 42:09 I think that's the through line here. Sarah 42:11 Let's put Dave in the cannon. Dave 42:12 I am going to say that Donna Martin, it took me a while to figure out her name. I'm going to say that Donna Martin, therefore, is a pioneer in snacking at this point in time. But her name won't be on the Wikipedia page when it comes time for silly popcorn flavor name that we all know and love today. She's going to be a forgotten milestone in that journey. So for that, I want to give her something. And that something is going to be this tiny, can't it? Tara 42:40 Ay. Dave 42:40 All right, let's make this official. Tara Arellano, popcorn and ice cream for the Tiny Snack Cannon, yay or nay? Tara 42:49 For my mouth, no. For the Tiny Snack Cannon, yes. Dave 42:52 Yes, agreed. So, popcorn and ice cream from Beverly Hills 90210, you're hereby inducted into the Extra Hot Great Tiny Snack Cannon. Dave 43:03 Enough. I'm so sick and tired of hearing you people talk about food, food, food. Nice try, Sarah. Sarah 43:09 Now I accept this judgment. Tara 43:10 Yup. Dave 43:14 It's time for our Not Quite Winners and Losers of the Week. The first Not Quite Winner is Richard Iowati for being the most recognizable celebrity voice actor in the history of Star Wars for playing a robot cop, brackets, ACAP, in the new mall show that just started. As soon as I heard it, I'm like, oh, okay, I guess they got Richard Iowati for this, because you know who doesn't sound like Richard Iowati? Everybody on Earth except for Richard Iowati. It's distinctive. Yeah, it is very distinctive. They also had What's-His-Nut from Silicon Valley and the sticky Chris Diamantopoulos. Thank you. And I never would have guessed he was in it, too, but he's also a voice actor there. Tara 43:55 Also the contemporary voice of Mickey Mouse in the new cartoons that are being in. Yeah, when I interviewed him a couple of years ago, he did it in the phone call, and it was really fun. Dave 44:04 That's some job security. Tara 44:06 Yep. Sarah 44:06 Yeah, I'll say. Dave 44:07 Loser of the week is the late-night landscape, as CBS announces it will replace the late-night show with Stephen Colbert with, and this is Dave Nipp, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen. Byron Allen, net worth, personal net worth. Tara 44:22 I mean, I feel like he's probably a triple digits millionaire, if not a billionaire. Dave 44:27 Okay. Put a number. Give me a number. Tara 44:30 $800 million. Dave 44:31 Sarah? Sarah 44:32 I think it's quite a bit lower. $8 million. Dave 44:35 It's $1 billion. He is worth $1 billion, possibly north of $1 billion. Tara 44:40 Okay. Dave 44:40 He stealthily owns all of Hollywood. I'm telling you. Tara 44:43 He owns a lot of stuff. Dave 44:44 Two, three years from now, he's going to be worth $10 billion and then $100 billion. Then they're going to rename Hollywood Allentown. Tara 44:51 And we'll be living there. Dave 44:52 We'll be living there. Sarah 44:53 Yeah. Dave 44:54 All right. Sarah D. Bundy, who is your not quite winner of the week? Sarah 44:56 Whoever's closing all the factories down in Allentown. JK. My not quite winner is actually Brian Cox, who turned down Pirates of the Caribbean because he hates Johnny Depp. I mean, good reason. And more people should have done that for the Harry Potter thing. Dave 45:14 I know it doesn't work because they haven't been in the same TV show, but Harrison Ford and Brian Cox in that podcast we were talking about earlier. Tara 45:22 Yeah. Dave 45:23 Oh, yeah. Sarah 45:24 Get a polyp just listening to it. Loser of the Week related is Jeremy Strong because Brian Cox apparently blabbed that Strong has, quote, begged Brian Cox to stop talking about his method acting on Succession. I mean, you did that to yourself, Jer. Tara 45:42 Yeah. Sarah 45:42 Sorry. Good job, Brian Cox. Tara 45:44 Yeah. Sarah 45:45 Keep not giving a shit. That's what I like. Tara 45:47 Yeah, write a book. Maybe he has. I should look that up. My Not Quite Winner of the Week is R.J. Decker. When we talked about this show in the main podcast a few weeks ago, we discussed who would play the shadowy Miami fixer that is the father of Emmy in the show, the woman who had sex with R.J. Decker in the pilot and then testified against him and is now trying to make things up to him by passing him information, et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, on that podcast, I said it should be Jimmy Smits. They have now cast David Zayas from Dexter, and that is also a great choice. Dave 46:23 David Zayas, David Zayas, David Zayas, David Zayas. Tara 46:27 Also, Stephen Bishop, who I think played David Justice in Moneyball. Not quite loser of the week as SNL UK, which saw a 42% drop-off for its third episode. Dave 46:41 Blimey! Tara 46:41 That was down from the already steeply dropped-off episode two, which I think it was 43%. So basically, people are fleeing this show in droves. No one cares. Dave 46:52 I know you've talked about it, but did you talk in particular about whether the SNL skits they're putting on here are actually... the mood is flipped to British style comedy? Are they laughing at the people rather than trying to laugh with the people? Is it meaner than Saturday Night Live? Tara 47:09 Some of the update jokes are meaner, but I don't really watch SNL US anymore. So I can't say what the vibe is. Dave 47:17 British comedy is inherently different than American comedy to me. And I just don't feel like the template for Saturday Night Live plays that well in the UK as opposed to the stuff they grow at home. Tara 47:28 So I'm not surprised. Well, the 10 to 1 sketch in the one and only episode I saw, which was the premiere, was like, what kind of Irish grandpa do you have? And it was one of the cast members singing a song about different styles and showing off different Irish accents, which was definitely not something you would see on SNL US, but the rest of it felt like it would. Follow-up, Stephen Bishop did play David Justice in Moneyball. Thank you. Dave 47:53 All right, it is time for the most dangerous musical moments on television. And this one It's really fucked up. Enjoy. Kari 48:09 Hello, friends! This is Carrie Race with another edition of the World's Most Dangerous Musical Moments on TV. And I can't believe it took me four segments to talk to you about the craziest musical show there ever was. Of course, I'm talking about Jem. For any heathens out there, Jem was an animated show that aired from 1985 to 1988 with that old trope about a young girl of indeterminate age named Jerrica Benton, who inherits her father's record company after he passes away, O, and he also left her a supercomputer called Synergy that can create holograms. And so she uses magic earrings to turn into Jem, a rock singer that performs with her band, The Holograms. Get it? O, and also Jerrica is responsible for a bunch of orphans that live in her big mansion. Kari 49:00 Oh, and also Jerika has a boyfriend named Rio, but he falls in love with Jem and then is always being a real bitch about how Jerika doesn't have time for him. Meanwhile, he's off kissing Jem, but Jerika is never like, listen, dude, you've been making out with Jem all over Tarnation. Oh, and also there's this rival group called the Misfits, and they are nasty with a capital N, and they literally try to kill Jem and the Holograms every episode at least once, sometimes twice or more, and ban the carceral state, but also Pizazz, Roxy, and Stormer belong in prison. Okay, I think you're mostly caught up. Let's talk about Season 1, Episode 22, Intrigue at the Indy 500, or what I like to call that time Jem won the Indianapolis 500, because sure, that is something that would happen. But first, you know I gotta play you a bit of the theme song. Kari 50:17 Okay, so Eric Raymond, the Misfits manager, is planning to sabotage the Indy 500 because he's betting big on one of the drivers. This part is stupid, but Dan Casino should study whatever is happening with these degenerate gamblers, that's for sure. And the best race car driver in the world, who is sure to win, had his sponsor drop out at the last minute. Sure, sure. But of course, Starlight Music, that's Jerrica's label, has stepped in. Yay, Jem to the rescue, and she's here to sing. We'll be. Kari 51:02 Back. I'm not going to lie to you, friends. That clip was just an excuse to have Jem sing, I'm coming from behind. So then some goons sabotage the Starlight-sponsored race car and it gets mangled during the qualifying laps. No problem. Surely this world-famous race car driver has a team of mechanics that can handle the repairs, right? Kari 51:50 So they get synergy to project holograms of what the car looked like before it got smashed, but they still have to do the repairs. At one point, Kimber, who is Jerrica's younger sister, has welding goggles on and she is just straight up welding metal. Sure, sure. But hey, the driver is still injured. How are we going to fix that problem? Kari 52:17 Don't look now, Eric, but Martino's car is back in the race! And Jem's driving it! What? Yep, you know how it be. When a driver drops out of the Indy 500, one of the most famous races in the world, they just ask a pop singer to take his place. Well, Pazaz gets so mad about that, she goes down to the pit and she drags another driver out of a race car and hops in, causes a multiple car pileup on her way back out onto the track, and takes the lead. Then, Jem and Pizazz smash into each other, but don't worry, Jem basically just drives over another disabled car which is just chilling out on the track. Listen, I know this is an animated show about a pop singer who's a walking hologram, but this is some wild shit. We've certainly got an exciting race on our hands. Kari 53:26 Do not worry! Jem wins, even though one of her tires comes off because she spins across the finish line just ahead of Pazazz. But then the car does a total flipping 360 through the air, and these guys have to jump out of the stands to rescue Jem. Where the hell was Rio? And I know podcasting is a visual medium, but I will share a screenshot on the Discord of the face one of these guys is making. Kari 53:55 It's been making me laugh since I watched this episode last year. The look of absolute horror on his face would cause nightmares for any child watching this. Gem! Gem! Gem! Gem! Congratulations, first rock and roll star ever to win the Indy 500. Thank you. Oh, you don't say? Rock and roll stars aren't winning the Indy 500 on the regular? and then gem and rio kiss gross he already kissed jerica this episode what a creep and then they replay one of the songs in its entirety and then there's an obnoxious psa style coda where gem gets all sanctimonious with some of the orphan girls who we didn't see in this episode otherwise and it's like gem shut up you need a supercomputer to do everything for you. Kari 55:01 And that's the episode of Jem, where she won the Indy 500. Until next time, stay dangerous. And remember, doing the right thing makes you a superstar. Dave 55:23 Welcome in, grandpas. This is your extra credit for the week. And let me tell you, we're sad you don't have the full episode. to listen to, but if you had to listen to one segment, it's got to be this one because this week it is Breaking Beef. And I asked my cohorts here to bring 10 TV show titles that could also be describing farts. If somebody says a title that we have in our lists, we will let you know that we also had an art list by making a quick fart noise. That is the rumor. Here we go. I will I'll go first, then I'll go to Sarah, then Tara, the boys. Sarah 55:58 Good one. I would like to note that all of my titles are past titles from Investigation Discovery Channel only. Tara 56:08 Okay. Sarah 56:09 American Nightmare. Tara 56:10 Memory of a Killer. Dave 56:12 Tales from the Crypt. Sarah 56:15 Behind Mansion Walls. Tara 56:18 Comedy Bang Bang. Dave 56:20 Limitless. Sarah 56:23 Betrayed. Tara 56:24 The Queen's Gambit. Dave 56:26 Penny Dreadful. Sarah 56:27 Broken Trust. Tara 56:29 Nobody Wants This. Dave 56:31 The Expanse. Sarah 56:32 Chaos in Court. Tara 56:34 Dark Shadows. Dave 56:37 Louder Milk. Sarah 56:39 Dead Silent. Tara 56:41 Too Close for Comfort. Dave 56:44 Winds of War. Sarah 56:45 Dead on Arrival. Tara 56:47 Bad Monkey. Dave 56:49 Bless This Mess. Sarah 56:52 Devil Among Us. Tara 56:54 Hot in Cleveland. Dave 56:56 The Strain. Sarah 56:59 Did he do it? Tara 57:00 Malcolm in the Middle. Dave 57:02 The Leftovers. Sarah 57:03 Dream Killer. Tara 57:05 Good Morning America. Dave 57:08 The Fugitive. Sarah 57:11 Fear Thy Neighbor. Tara 57:14 Riptide. Nice. Dave 57:18 Celebrity Bowling. Sarah 57:21 Hell house jackass the abandons hear no evil cutter to houston the beast in me i almost got away with it. Dave 57:35 Survivor long story short. Sarah 57:39 I went undercover mozart. Tara 57:43 In the jungle. Dave 57:45 Trial and error. Sarah 57:47 In the line of fire Bosh. Dave 57:52 Billy Joel and so it goes. Sarah 57:56 Living a nightmare The. Dave 57:58 Burbs With love. Sarah 58:01 Megan My dirty little secret The. Tara 58:06 Big door prize Under the bridge. Sarah 58:08 Nothing personal Drops. Dave 58:12 Of God masters of the air. Sarah 58:16 Swamp murders government. Tara 58:20 Cheese free spirit. Sarah 58:22 Valley of the damned roar. Dave 58:25 Duster. Sarah 58:26 Vanished into thin air. Tara 58:28 Smoke. And I'm out. Dave 58:30 Emergency. Sarah 58:32 What lies beneath? Dave 58:34 Roller jam. Sarah 58:35 Your worst nightmare. And I'm out. Dave 58:38 Oh, Agatha all along. Bird notice. Sarah 58:43 Mr. Dave 58:44 Throwback. Unsolved mysteries. Sarah 58:49 Maybe it's you. Dave 58:51 Cannon. Rectify. Blossom. I think this might be my favorite one. Airwolf. Previously mentioned Riptide, Ripley, Gomer Pile, The Outer Limits, The Time Tunnel, and we'll end off with some game shows. Wipeout, Press Your Luck, Deal or No Deal, I've Got a Secret, Name That Tune, and finally, The Gong Show. Sarah 59:21 No Jeopardy? Come on. Dave 59:23 I thought about that. I thought maybe it was too obvious. There's lots of ones that are like, that's directly about farts and we can't actually spin that it's not. Tara 59:30 All right, I'm going to save this list so that we can come back to it in the future because this feels like a rich vein. Sarah 59:37 Westerns alone, holy shit. Tara 59:38 True. Dave 59:39 Gunsmoke, yeah, absolutely. Tara 59:41 Bonanza. Dave 59:42 Right. Well, that is it for another episode of Extra, Extra Hot Great. We had a short look at the Tiny Spouse series of Miniature Wife before answering your burning ass EHG questions like, what's Joey up to now? And what are you eating at Costco? We filled up on Sarah's popcorn and ice cream snack, Tiny Cannon. We celebrated those who were quite the best and worst of the week and wrapped it all up with a room full of TV fart titles. Next up is the Audacity on EHG Prime. Remember... I am David T. Cole, and on behalf of Dari Ariano. Tara 1:00:20 A tragedy's a better story. Dave 1:00:23 And Sarah D. Bunting. Sarah 1:00:24 This sounds like the same old adventures of Beans Baxter to me. Dave 1:00:29 Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time, right here on Extra, Extra, Hot Great. I'm going to be right back. Sarah 1:00:53 I'm not proud.