Closing The Kitchen At The Bear

Clip 00:00 You're not gonna be fucking weird, right? Zero weird. Dave 00:11 This is the Extra Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 416 for the June 27th, 2026 weekend. I am Berf Prospectus David T. Cole, and I'm here with Freaky Plumbing, Sarah D. Bunting. Sarah 00:30 Get thee behind me, sewer. Dave 00:32 And Coca-Cola Short Ribs, Tara Ariano Tara 00:35 A classic Welcome to Extra Extra Hot Great for another weekend. Thank you so much for your support for making all of the extras podcasts that we do possible. We are here to talk about season five of the bear, which picks up almost exactly where season four left off. Everyone is facing the grim reality of Cicero, aka Uncle Jimmy, played by Oliver Pratt. Cutting off his financial investment in the titular restaurant while also adjusting to the new management structure Sydney, Iowa Deborah, and Richie, Evan Moss Bachrach, at the top, and Carmi, Jeremy Allen White, self-demoted to more lowly prep work We're gonna find out precisely how the day goes because at least the first seven of eight episodes take the characters from arrivals first thing in the morning to close of business on this one pivotal day. As ever, the show was created by Christopher Storer. The first two episodes of the season aired on FX June 25th, but also the entire season dropped on Hulu. The same day at 9 p. m. Eastern, we got access to the whole season except the finale and may potentially talk about events from any of those episodes. Let's do the Chen check-in. Sarah, should our listeners watch the bear season five? Sarah 02:00 If you got this far, yes, but don't start here. Tara 02:04 Mm-hmm. Dave 02:04 Don't start here in season five, is that what you're saying? I enjoyed this more than the last couple seasons. And I'm gonna say, maybe we save it to the end. I have an exciting prediction for the last episode. Sarah 02:17 Okay. Tara 02:17 I've heard this prediction and I hope it is wrong. I agree with Dave. This was not as annoying as the previous two seasons were, but it was still a little annoying. Dave 02:26 Yeah It was a little annoying because the bear is always a little annoying to me, yes. Sarah 02:28 Mm-hmm. Tara 02:32 Yes. Dave 02:32 And their decision to, as Tara says, impitonize it. either works for air or it doesn't. For me, I think it works for me because they just have to barrel through a lot of the shit and I think it stops them from doing too much performative artsy fartsiness when they probably shouldn't. Sarah 02:49 Yes Tara 02:50 Mm-hmm. Dave 02:51 So there's just like a time crunch. Tara 02:53 There is, and yet, and let's just say we're now into the discussion. We're talking about it spoilerifically, so m everyone be aware. Clip 03:02 Flyer Alert! No Tara 03:05 They do have to speed through and yet somehow they're still showing the same footage we've already seen at least four other times of Sydney getting her meal at that restaurant in New York where Carmi worked like Dave 03:13 Yes. Yes, not only that, and that was gonna be my second part of it, which is there isn't a lot of difference between episodes two, three, four, five, and six. Tara 03:19 Yeah. Dave 03:27 it is just a lot of one day in the restaurant chaos. If that's your bag, and I don't mind watching that, there is a certain like what's the opposite? It's like the opposite of slow TV, you know? Like instead of watching a train traveling through Norway, I get to watch these Tara 03:38 Uh-huh. Dave 03:41 Knuckleheads tried to make a restaurant work for three hours for those episodes. I didn't mind it, even though it was a curious decision for a show's last season Sarah 03:54 Yeah. This is what the show does. It's formalist fuckery, I guess. Like it just is trying to play with form and with your ideas of time and how time behaves when you are traumatized or depressed or under an enormous amount of stress. But it's already iterated on that enough ways and enough ways that didn't work really for me that this final Formless scheme is like, okay, I accept it because it's the last season, but also can we stop returning to extremely obvious visual symbology like We get it. The train is clogged with cigarette butts. Tara 04:37 Mm-hmm. Dave 04:37 What? Sarah 04:39 I get it. Dave 04:40 Huh? Sarah 04:40 I get it, car wreck visual. I get it, deluge. I like I really do. Dave 04:46 Yeah. Sarah 04:46 Get it. And you think at this point the show would trust us a little more, but it doesn't quite Dave 04:52 I agree, and it's always heavy-handed, but don't you think the time crunch formatting of this episode probably saved us from more of those? Sarah 05:01 Yes, probably, but given that this is the formal choice it doesn't seem like we really have as much time as is spent on flaws in a marble surface. Like, take one of these off at least Tara 05:16 Mm-hmm. Sarah 05:19 They're also not speeding things up enough that certain kind of no longer believable ways that characters are frustrating are not annoying. Dave 05:28 Yeah. Sarah 05:29 Like Sydney, my God, spit it the Fuck out. I can't Dave 05:34 Yeah. Well, I guess that's the other thing about the whole impitentization of the season. Tara 05:35 Mm-hmm. Dave 05:39 Because they're concentrating on this one day at the bear, it is more about the whole system working than it is about individual people in the kitchen. Tara 05:49 Yeah Dave 05:49 So even though it's the last season, we're not getting a lot of character notes on the characters that we have been familiar with from four seasons of watching this show. Like it it's much more of an organism, bear as organism, than it is bear as Carmi and bear as Sydney and blah blah blah down the line. Sarah 06:05 Mm-hmm. Dave 06:06 Like the only person that I was genuinely interested in learning more about. And I forget the dude's name, but the guy with the birth prospectus that was heading off the sub shop. Thank you. Sarah 06:17 Yeah. Dave 06:17 Ebrahim, his prospectus, was really the one thing was like, come on, let's I need the deets, let's go. Tara 06:21 Yeah Dave 06:23 As of what we've been able to watch, we're not quite there yet. So Obviously that's something for the finale, but I found that whole exercise where it is the kitchen as the organism interesting, but also a weird choice for the bear because they've got so many distinct personalities and they set up everybody's Kitchen traumas that you don't really get a lot of follow-through on that except for maybe the very opening scene. Tara 06:48 I I mean it's sad to think about, but it's possible they had to do some quick rewrites with Ebrahim's storyline because his mentor in season four was played by Rob Reiner. Dave 06:58 Uh right. Sarah 06:59 Yeah. Tara 06:59 So, you know, we get a scene where we see Ebrahim's half of the conversation where he's calling him and getting advice and stuff about how to proceed, but I assume that's How that's gonna go. And maybe they, you know, just had to r move the computer into where Albert was before to accommodate events. Sarah 07:10 Yeah. Dave 07:15 Right. Cheese whiz. Tara 07:17 Yeah, geez. Sarah 07:18 Yeah, and also like people being on Broadway and everything else, like we we all sort of understand that there is a world outside. But could this have been done just as easily by sort of like putting a static camera just on Marcus and uh Luca and then just everything else happening around the edges and you get it from that? Because they're sort of like very peaceful with each other, I would watch a spin-off of them just like standing around measuring things and barely talking for 22 minutes an episode, like the slowest of TV Dave 07:50 Yeah. Sarah 07:52 And their whole McGriddle thing was so wonderful. I don't know. I mean, it just depends on like if you want more time spent with specific characters, it's like you're gonna have to go back into into already aired episodes to spend more time with them, it looks like, so Dave 08:07 Those two guys' dialogue kind of reminded me of like if Quentin Tarantino had to write an episode of the bear. Sarah 08:12 Yeah, I'm not sure. Dave 08:13 It really was It was like I'm coming in here. I got three scenes in your submarine move. You're gonna talk about Silver Surfer for a while. Here we go. Tara 08:20 Mm-hmm. Dave 08:20 Bam, they griddle. Sarah 08:21 Mm. Tara 08:21 Yeah, that or like let's see a the Bear Times Doughboys crossover event where they're just talking about breakfast foods from other fast food places too. Sarah 08:22 Royale cheese Dave 08:29 Don't know what you're talking about, but yes. Tara 08:31 Doughboys is a podcast where they review chain restaurants. Dave 08:33 Okay. I see. I see. Tara 08:36 Dave, the season premiere closes with a pipe explosion. Are you okay? Dave 08:39 Yeah I wrote on my notes. Oh no, we are the bear Pites in the restaurant, just like our pipes. Sarah 08:44 Oh my God, yeah Dave 08:47 If they're not exploding, they're groaning. Sarah 08:49 It was triggering homeowners, you you know, if you know, you know. Dave 08:52 Yeah. Tara 08:52 Yeah Dave 08:53 At least our pipe explosion wasn't from above directly onto us multiple times in the season and look like dookie water. Tara 08:57 No, yes. Sarah 09:02 Oh God. Tara 09:04 Mm-hmm Dave 09:04 Yeah, thank God not me again. Sarah 09:04 Yeah Tara 09:06 Yeah. So what do we think of the fact that FX held back the series finale from critics? Like I my I I feel like and I realize the listeners are like making the jerk off motion now, I realize we have screener privilege and blah blah blah. We you know Wait, that's a a reality of our lives. But it makes me think they are like bracing for bad comments on whatever they're planning to do, more so than spoilers, but who knows. Dave 09:32 Uh it could be that, but I would put more money on the fact that the crater was like, no, we have to maintain the mystery. Tara 09:41 Sure. Dave 09:41 of the finale and we you know yeah exactly I would put more money on that. Tara 09:42 Matthew Weiner style. Sarah 09:42 Yeah Tara 09:43 Mm-hmm. Dave 09:46 Here comes my all right here we go here we get I think this is the perfect time for me to introduce Dave's theory of the end of the bear Tara 09:48 Okay. Well, and before you do that, I'll just say having also watched Gary, I now think the series finale could take place at any time and any kind of a thing could potentially Sarah 10:02 Yes, agree. Tara 10:03 happen given that we now know there's no level of indulgence that these creators won't indulge. Okay, go ahead, Dave. Dave 10:09 All right, this is absolutely going to happen. Sarah 10:09 Mm-hmm Dave 10:12 One hundred percent Dave T. Cole guarantee put all your savings on this. Sarah 10:15 Wait. Before you say it, let me bet with myself. Dave 10:19 Okay. Tara 10:19 Mm-hmm. Sarah 10:20 Okay. Dave 10:21 Alright. Tara 10:21 It's you are you've lost already. Go ahead, Dave. Dave 10:24 One of the first scenes of episode one is Cousin Richie getting T-boned by a minivan. Apparently it was also in Gary. The rest of the season is Ritti's thoughts as his brain twinkles out as he dies in the car crash. Sarah 10:41 Nope, I won, Tara Jacob's ladder, baby Dave 10:41 His w Yes Tara 10:45 I'm so sorry Dave 10:48 As the neurons dim out one by one, he has a last beautiful dream being together with everybody for one last night and the restaurant that is obviously super duper failing in real life and will close down because that's what restaurants do. is saved somehow by this one miraculous night where all the mistakes become value ads and everything everybody does somehow they make it through and they save the bear and he's he's dead. Sarah 11:14 Uh-huh. Yep, Richie's ladder. Hundred percent. No bet, you're absolutely right. Dave 11:18 Great. Alright, me and Sarah are shaking hands over Zoom right now because we absolutely nailed it 100%. Sarah 11:21 Mm-hmm. Yes, hundred percent Dave 11:25 Put your money on it. Speaking of a lot of things that are 100%, it is the theme to ask EHG.really, the new bear is what they're calling it, because it is down to earth. And funny Alright, it is time for Ask EHG, which means we must First, spin the wheel of judgment to see who's going to be the judge for Ask Ass E H G. Here we go. Oh no, it's going it's getting faster now. Prrrrrrrr. How's this working? Sarah Sarah 12:19 Yeah, wow, what a what a ride. Last week's Ask Ask EHG question came to us from EC Fell. They inquired, or ordered really. Add David Krumholtz to the next season of The Pit. Who's his character and how does he slot into the season Just a bit of quick background on ER, David Krumholtz played Paul Sabriki, the character who stabbed Noah Wyle and um what's her nuts? Tara 12:46 Luci Sarah 12:46 Becca in season six. That was the premise. We got some really interesting answers. I first would like to know what Dave has to say. Dave 12:56 I think he is reincarnated as a scalpel, and then Robbie drops him on the floor during something, and he spends the rest of the season just staring at feet. Sarah 13:03 Oh, okay. We had a few listener answers that I enjoyed. Two Listeners are getting stickers this week. First is Eric Without a K who announced before anyone even answered. First of all, it's now the P1 the pit, like numb three ears, which David Krumholtz's was also on. Tara 13:23 Uh-huh, cute. Mm-hmm. Sarah 13:25 Cekent contributed the following He's admitted to the hospital because he has lost all feeling in his body. When they take off his shirt, they find an ear Growing in his underarm, it turns out he is part of a biohacking collective and was trying to grow an ear for his sister who needs a transplant. the overall body numbness was caused by the DNA injections. The ER ducs give him an insouciant nickname, as they often do, which is how he becomes known as numb three ears. Dave 13:58 All right, fine. Sarah 13:58 That's very nice work, C Kent. I'm gonna need you to leave and think about what you've done. But our winner this week is Anne with an E, also getting stickers. He's there for all of season three, just in an exam cubicle, awake and alert, a part of the background, making all of us ER watchers increasingly stressed. He and Robbie hold more and more silent eye contact as the season goes on. Tension builds and builds. No exposition of why he's there and when he's going to be discharged or admitted No other character acknowledges him. As med students get splash-zoned, he's just there, all eyebrows and silent malevolence. And then the season ends. Robbie grabs his reusable water bottle, pops in his earbuds, and a Wilco esque acoustic cover of Battle Flags starts playing as he nears the ambulance bay. Roll credits Credits halt. Krumholtz turns into a transformer in the form of a big-ass midlife crisis motorcycle and mows his ass down. Credits resume. Dave 15:04 Wow. I'm always here for a little sci-fi ting to the pit. Tara 15:07 Yeah Sarah 15:07 Mm-hmm. Dave 15:08 All right. Sarah 15:08 And I mean, I think Krumholtz would be into being a transformer. So yes, Anne with an E and Eric without a K. Stickers be thine. Please contact Dave directly on Discord to No. Dave 15:21 We're not giving Seekant anything? Seekant go to Hell? Sarah 15:24 Yeah. Dave 15:24 Okay. Actually, Eric and Cekent already have stickers pending, so it doesn't matter anyways. So let's just say C Cant won anyway, Sarah, and then we won't have to deal with her feelings. Sarah 15:31 Sure. Fine. Dave 15:33 Okay, great. Sarah 15:34 Someone walk out to the yard where I've made him stand and tell him that he's what Dave 15:38 Alright, let's get into your questions for us this week. First one is from Jovial Gent. They ask, Fuck Mary Kill. Cherry Coke, Dr. Pepper Cherry, or Cherry Sprite. Tara 15:50 Fuck Dr. Pepper Cherry. I actually don't think I've ever tasted this, even though it's in our house all the time, 'cause it's Dave's Favorite? Mary Cherry Coke, Kill Cherry Sprite. Although I did used to love Cherry Seven Up as a youth. I tried one of the I try I guess it was the Shirley Temple 7 Up recently when it was Available around Christmas time. Too sweet even for me. Sarah. Sarah 16:14 Kill all three of them, Fuck, and Mary Black Cherry Vanilla Diet Coke R. Dave 16:20 What is going on? Sarah 16:22 I. P. Dave 16:23 You can't do that. Tara 16:24 She just didn't. Dave 16:25 This is the sacrosanct fuckberry kill soda you just can't make up shit. Sarah 16:30 I just did Dave 16:30 Boy, I don't know. We're gonna have to go to the governing board on this one. Sarah 16:35 Okay, I am the governing board. Tara 16:35 Go up to the yard. Sarah 16:37 Shut up. Dave, what's your answer? Dave 16:38 Well, instead of fucking Marin Kill, I want a billion dollars Sarah 16:43 Great, done Dave 16:44 Alright, fine. Uh exactly the same answers as Tara. Fuck Dr. Pepper Cherry because she's the spiciest. Marry Cherry Coke because she's the most reliable. I can always find Cherry Coke. Can always find Dr. Pepper Cherry and kill Cherry Sprite because Sprite and all lemon lime sodas are garbage. Sarah 17:05 Okay, the Fuck Mary Kill governing board secret police is on its way to your house, so Dave 17:10 Alright. You let us know in the comments and Discord. Is is Sarah making a mockery of Fuck Mary Kill with her extracurricular choices? Sarah 17:18 And also that Tara is the only one who obey the rules. Dave 17:21 I obeyed the rules fine. Sarah 17:22 We get it! Dave 17:22 Tarzan's trying to keep the peace even though Sarah, you started the war. Jovial Gen has our next Sarah 17:27 I'll end it too. Dave 17:28 question shut shut up Jovial Jen has our next question what is a food or beverage that you haven't had in such a long time that you've forgotten what it tastes like like the rules for the previous question Sarah D. Bunting start us off Sarah 17:31 No Tara 17:38 Oh my God Sarah 17:46 I would start talking, but I just know that Dave is gonna barrel in with like a Miranda warning. Dave 17:49 Oh yeah, you know it Sarah 17:51 Anyway, New York strip steak with A1 sauce. I actually don't forget what it tastes like. It's just been a really long time, but I've been like downwind of enough other people eating a steak with A1 that you know what I really don't remember what it really tastes like though is a root beer float, and thanks to a recent Dawson's Creek, I really kind of want one. I'd probably get the diabetes as a result, but that looked pretty delicious. Tara 18:18 Yes. Sarah 18:18 And wouldn't confine me to toilet quarters for a day and a half. Tara 18:23 Recent in our timeline, upcoming for listeners. Sarah 18:26 Yes Dave 18:26 Toilet quarters. Sounds like a really budget dying mall store. Uh I put McDonald's cheeseburger. And I remember them having a very distinct smell, i but the f but I can't remember what they taste like. Tara 18:35 Mm-hmm. Sarah 18:39 Yes Dave 18:42 And I think it was mostly the little chopped onions you can smell when you lift up the bun. Sarah 18:46 Mm-hmm. Tara 18:46 Yeah, I'm not sure. Dave 18:46 I just realized I've been a vegetarian longer than I have not now. Tara 18:50 Yes. Dave 18:51 So it is way in my rearview mirror, like decades. So yeah. Sarah 18:55 Yeah, I'm almost at the halfway point, so Dave 18:57 I guess uh the other thing would be because I ate so many of them when I was a kid, fish sticks. Tar. Tara 19:03 Lamb? I like I couldn't I couldn't think of anything. Dave 19:05 Lamb. Tara 19:06 Well, I I I mean I'm not going to a restaurant and ordering lamb. I certainly haven't had it since my parents cooked it for me. And it wasn't big in their household either, so that was just the first thing I thought of. Dave 19:17 Alright. That's fair. Tara 19:19 Hmm. Dave 19:19 Alright, next one comes from, I believe, a new question ask. Thank you. Sark brackets. Tron, not alias. Tara 19:26 Nice, yep. Dave 19:27 Great. Sarah 19:27 Good clarification, thank you. Dave 19:29 Best ice cream flavor? I have two choices. Number one, coffee, close second turtles. I don't know what they usually call it because it's not turtles, but Sarah 19:37 Oh yeah. Tara 19:39 Caramel Pecan cluster, you something like that. Dave 19:40 Right. Ultimate, combine those two. Tara 19:44 Mm-hmm. Dave 19:44 You get the ultimate Dave Deacole ice cream combo. Tara 19:47 Yeah, does does Amy's have pieces of turtle that you can mix in? Dave 19:47 Mmm. Tara 19:51 If not, they should. Dave 19:52 First of all, I thought you were gonna say pieces of April. Which yuck. Tara 19:56 No. Dave 19:56 What I usually do at Amy's, which is sort of like our locally owned cold stone creamery kind of setup, is get coffee ice cream. Tara 20:01 Yes, mm hmm. Dave 20:04 And then ask them to chop in Reese's peanut butter cups. It's delicious. Tara 20:09 Yep Dave 20:09 Yeah. All right. Uh Tara, what's your choice here? Tara 20:11 Rocky Road. You thought it was mint chocolate chip. Dave 20:12 Oh. Tara 20:14 I just get that when I'm in the mood. Dave 20:15 Ugh. Tara 20:16 Or overall, most consistently good, Rocky Road. Dave 20:19 In the mood slash wanna make sure there's ice cream in the freezer when you want it. Tara 20:22 Yes, it is Dave Proof. It is a problem in our household where foods get bought and sometimes they get eaten before the person who picked them out can get any. Dave 20:32 Mint doesn't belong in desserts. Sarah 20:33 Yeah. Tara 20:34 Oh, I'm glad that's what you're taking a stand on and not trying to contradict me that you eat my food all the time. Sarah. Sarah 20:41 Most readily available, I agree with Dave, coffee or mint shock. Not that he agrees with me, but the real best for me, you just it's hard to find, is black raspberry, which my mother ate every night when she was pregnant with me. Keep in mind I was born in March, so she was Waddling down to Baskin Robbins in winter. My dad and I are both still obsessed with it. Side note, please miss me with the greater's recommendation. I know y'all Cincinnatians are proud of it and you mean well, but the chocolate ruins it for me. I am not a crackpot. Love you. Dave 21:14 I just remembered one of the biggest ice cream disappointments as a child. Maybe I think every child probably goes through it because you look at it. Wait, I'll describe it. You tell me if you can guess the flavor. Tara 21:23 Okay. Dave 21:24 Ooh, look at that. Sarah 21:27 Yeah. Dave 21:27 Bubblegum, I think as a child I could stand to eat. This one is two colors. Tara 21:32 Tiger Tail, mm-hmm Dave 21:32 Tiger tail. It's orange sherbet and licorice, in case you don't have it in your area, and you're like, mmm. Tara 21:38 That was my favorite as a kid. Dave 21:40 Really? Tara 21:40 Yep. Dave 21:41 Well, that's right. You're weird. You like licorice. You're from the prairies. Sarah 21:43 Yeah. No, I like it too, but it's never like there's always something I'd rather have, so Dave 21:48 Yeah. I remember the disappointment the first time I had actually the one time probably I had tiger tail ice cream. All right, Damon. This one's for Tara If it were the apocalypse, but there were new sweet tomatoes in existence everywhere, would Tara stick around for a little while? Tara 22:05 Is this where we have to explain how supply chains work? Like the appeal of going to Sweet Tomatoes is not just to be in the building. Like if there's no one there to what? Dave 22:13 Oh come on! Let's just let's just do a little thought experiment here. It is the apocalypse, yet somehow fully functional sweet tomatoes exist. Tara 22:19 Right. So I can hole up in sweet tomatoes, I can eat all my favorites Dave 22:24 Uh-huh. No no no, they kick you out the end of the night. They're running a business, even though it is the apocalypse. Tara 22:29 Oh well then no. No. I don't want to be left on my own outside of Sweet Tomatoes. Dave 22:31 Okay. Tara 22:34 No no le living by my wits and there's no new TV?absolutely not. Dave 22:39 That might be smart because the other way it could run is that Sweet Tomatoes is creating a zombie feeding farm. Tara 22:46 Mm-hmm. Dave 22:46 Where you go into sweet tomatoes thinking this is the place to eat for the apocalypse. And then at night, you're surrounded by zombies. They're all pressed against the window. You got no escape. The store's closing. You gotta leave. Tara 22:56 Mm-hmm. Dave 22:57 And then your zombie food. Tara 22:58 Yeah, no thanks. Dave 22:59 All right. Clip 23:00 Enough! I'm so sick and tired of hearing you people talk about food, food, food! Dave 23:04 Next question comes from Seth. Seth says some Fortnite skins released in 2026 include She-Ra, Dwight Schroot, and Peggy Hill. What's a TV themed Fortnite skin you would release to market because you think it would sell exceptionally well? And who would you pick to baffle the most children who play Fortnite? Tara 23:24 I think it's most baffle the children who play, not baffle the most children. Dave 23:29 Yeah, okay. Sarah 23:29 I mean, comes out the same kinda. Dave 23:30 This comes out of Save. Tara 23:31 I suppose. Dave 23:32 Yeah. The one that would sell well, I think, to the Fortnite crowd, and it's not just children. I mean, I think we got players into our 30s on Fortnite. Omni Man from Invincible, I think, because he's just a guy that can punch a hole in your head. So I think that would appeal to them. Baffling Choice is Letter Nemoy in his racing gear from the TV movie Baffled. Tara 23:54 Mm-hmm. My very first thought was Mr. Beast. Of course there is a Mr. Beast. skin in Fortnite, duh. So I pivoted and instead went to Jeff Probst. I mean, I feel like Survivor is a show that people of all ages watch. Dave 24:07 What? Tara 24:10 I don't know. Dave 24:10 I don't think so. Tara 24:11 I think it is. Dave 24:12 Really? You think I don't know. I think Survivor's aging out with its audience. Tara 24:15 Well, I don't know. Dave 24:16 I get that impression. Yeah. Tara 24:17 I don't know enough about children to guess uh beyond that what they would want to play as in Fortnite Dave 24:21 Hmm. Well we do our next question. Just make sure that Omni Man isn't already a skin, because I can very much see that being a skin even though he's super violent show as I don't think that stopped them before. Tara 24:30 Mm-hmm. No. And most baffle them, the great gazoo from the Flintstones, because I don't think children know about the Flintstones anymore. Dave 24:37 Sure. It would be kind of fun to be followed by somebody who calls you a dum-dum all the time. Sarah 24:38 Mm-hmm. Dave 24:42 Yeah. And with an e-eee on a scale of zero to apocalypse, how dire is it for the industry that Peacock now has those weird vertical dramas exclusive on their app? And Can we force and Dave to watch Faded to My Forbidden Alpha? Tara 24:58 First of all, there is an Omni Man Fortnite scan. Dave 25:01 Alright. Tara 25:02 Proceed. Dave 25:02 Sir. Sarah 25:03 I don't know, like a two? Like we had a Quibi already, and like shit like this that works evolves to survive, and shit like this that doesn't work. Doesn't. I think a more interesting question is betting the over-under on how long they are in pride of place on the Peacock home screen. So since Dave and I aren't betting on his bear outcome, I guess we could bet. on that, but I don't think it's I don't think it's any more dire than anything else, Dave. Dave 25:29 Yeah. Yeah. Agree. Kids are not gonna log on to a second tier streaming app to watch a budget show when YouTube and TikTok already exist for free. Tara 25:38 Yeah Dave 25:38 And that is the main audience for this. Like I no offense, but very few people our age are watching short form vertical video because our brains aren't wired that way. We can never change. Also, I just don't care for that kind of stuff And we cannot force it, Dave, to watch it unless you put into the force in pool, in which case, have at it. Sarah 25:58 Yeah Tara 25:59 Yeah, I I agree with both of you. I I don't think that Quibi didn't work because of that. I think it's that what people like about short form vertical video is when it's Slightly lo-fi. Like I realize that there are real production companies that are putting full movies on, you know, three minutes at a time on TikTok, which is That's more depressing to me than that Peacock is putting on these short form videos that are made to be that way versus just a whole shitload of clips. Sarah 26:20 God, seriously Tara 26:28 Peacock might as well chase this trend while it lasts, I guess. It doesn't affect me either way. I would call this a three. Dave 26:34 What is going to be the first major movie that is recut three minutes at a time for vertical video? Tara 26:43 Airplane Dave 26:44 Perhaps. I was thinking something like pretty woman or something like that. Tara 26:47 Yeah, I was thinking more like something that's sort of sketch native. Dave 26:51 Oh, mean girls. Tara 26:52 Yeah, me someone's probably already done that to mean girls, actually. Sarah 26:53 Oh yeah. Dave 26:55 Yeah. Sarah 26:55 Yep, probably. Dave 26:56 Kara has a question just for me. How many people have bought the Diatho has been banned from the podcast shirt? Surprisingly, one. And I'm not counting the one I gifted to Diatho because Of course I did. So one other person that is not Diatho, I know who it is, but I will not out them, bought that shirt just for shits and giggles. Tara 27:09 Mm-hmm. That's fun. Dave 27:16 Yeah. Sunetra. If you could be turned into an animal for a day, which animal would you want to live as and why? Mythological or extinct animals are extinct accepted. I am 99% sure we answered this exact question at the start of Ask EHE segment, but let's do it again. Tara 27:33 Could be. Dave 27:34 It's been a while. Tara 27:35 Sandy McTire, our dog, has the best life of any entity I know. Left I put her above Knowlton because Knowlton clearly has some kind of like anxiety. He's he's a very worried, concerned dog. He also feels he has a job, which is to hurt us around the house. Sandy does what Sandy wants, including peeing on the floor sometimes like she did last night. So uh I'm gonna say Sandy, Sarah. Sarah 27:59 Any of the cats I have ever lived with, they sleep twenty hours a day, they have their own furniture, but lay around on and sully hours. They have to eat meat. Lowest common denominator social behavior is not only tolerated but expected. Love it. They're absolute villains and they're getting away with it. Let's go. Dave. Dave 28:21 Well first of all I I just want to say this isn't some sort of Tory spelling we let the dogs shit and piss over our house. Tara 28:27 No, no, no. Dave 28:28 She's sometimes not great about signaling when she wants to go outside and then decides that it is too much Tara 28:28 We don't let them. Yes. Dave 28:33 and peas like once every couple months sort of thing. Tara 28:35 She sneaks to do it. Dave 28:36 Yeah. Tara 28:36 She doesn't do it defiantly. Dave 28:38 But I did say dog just because I would love to have the experience of figuring out what dog language is Tara 28:44 Mm-hmm. Dave 28:45 in order to meet their knees better as a human the next day sort of thing. That's right. Sarah 28:50 No Dave 28:50 Uh I also would love the chance to eat my own poop without society looking over my shoulder and judging me Tara 28:59 Okay. Dave 28:59 And another late choice I just figured out, I would pick from the mythological column a Hydra, so I can just make tons of stupid decisions, and then there's it more of me It's great. Tara 29:12 Mm-hmm. Dave 29:12 Win-win. Tara 29:13 Yeah Dave 29:14 All right, that is it for us. Here comes your ask-Ask EHG question from Damon. Pick an iconic show. What should it have been about based on the name? Wrong answers only Got a submission for that, go to our Ask Ask EHG channel on Discord or answer right on the episode page on our site, extrahotgreat. com. You just gotta hook up your Patreon, just like Just like when you get that Google thing, log in with Google, well you can do the same thing with us except Patreon. Go there, answer that question. We'll be back in the future with JudgeBed. It is time for the extra Extra Hot Great tiny cannon. I will present this week. I'm here to present to you what I hope will be the inaugural entry into the Extra Hot Great tiny flatulence cannon. It comes from series 11 of Taskmaster, featuring future Taskmaster Junior Assistant Mike Wozniak. We start off on a private jet, which was the scene for an unrelated challenge. Mike Wozniak opens his simple and direct task of the moment. Clip 30:15 Receipts, welcome on board. Thank you, Alex. Hello. Fart. Fartist wins. Your time starts now Dave 30:23 The challenge is fart. Fartist wins. However, almost immediately there is a problem as Mike explains Clip 30:33 Not a lot going on at the moment. Have you have you tried yet? At the moment there's no No gas in the tank, so to speak. Is there any way of putting gas in the tank? Well I wonder. There was a guy at primary school, I think he used to have various brewing positions, he used to swear by. There are a lot of them involve sort of sort of kind of sort of positioning yourself Right this and so on. Dave 30:55 So he's trying various of these brewing positions. He gets upside down, he extends himself, he contracts himself, he goes into some sort of sitting fetal position somehow. Does some inverted phantom bicycling in a futile attempt to, as he puts it, massage the inner mic. So after all this, we cut back to the live studio for some reactions. Clip 31:17 Well occasionally in this show we have set tasks just to one solitary person and you thought you might see Mike fast. Do you know what bugs me about this task? I've always got one in the bank ready to go. You can't just summon that bad boy up, no? I mean it's event is a it's a frequent event Absolutely. But it's not I mean I don't have the Sarah Kendall now it's you know, TikTok it's five o'clock. I'm at the the the mercy of you know of Yeah. So we will keep an eye on his fart brewing throughout the episode. Oh th there's more to come, yeah? Well he hadn't farted yet. Dave 31:52 So we continue. There's some other challenges that go through the rest of the episode. And then during a blind battered item tasting challenge, which I believe featured battered wallet, if I'm remembering correctly, Mike Wozniak feels something happening. Tara 32:07 That's right. Clip 32:10 Side note, I think I can manage my previous challenge. I'm gonna scale. On the stamping mat. Oh no, I've scared it off. I've scared it off. I'm too big for my boots and I announced it. I've scared it off. Dave 32:27 Yeah, everybody on the stage's fellow contestants, Alex, Greg, are absolutely loving everything that's going on here. You can really tell there's like some genuine what the Fuck going on here. Tara 32:37 Yes, 'cause this is the first time the rest of the contestants are finding out this was a task given to him. Dave 32:43 Just a him, yep. Tara 32:43 Mm-hmm. Dave 32:44 There's more time lapse footage from his time on the plane. By the way, they had to break for lunch apparently during the production of this, because he was taking so long, you would think. Tara 32:52 Which should help. Yeah Dave 32:55 As the episode wraps up, we get another scene at the Batter Challenge. Clip 33:01 At this stage we normally do the final task, but do you want to have one last mic check? Oh, a little farty party. Yeah. Here we go You can go and clean yourself up if you want. Thanks, Alex. Anything nothing else you able to do at this stage? Well, if I I mean I maybe if I have a moment. It could it could it could be that something happens. I mean it must be possible, right? We're changed, we're changed. Yeah, here's a tiny tiny tiny tiny little pop. Oh stop the clock. Wow Not very satisfying. Yeah, quite a long wait for that. And I think I probably need to check myself. Anyway, so I'll see you later. Dave 33:55 Two things about that. Given the small output, Mike was, I feel, genuinely happy with that, and Alex just replying quite a long way for that. Sarah 34:06 Yeah Dave 34:07 Really was a study in contrast. Tara 34:09 Mm-hmm. Dave 34:10 If that wasn't enough, it is followed by this legendary live stage commentary. Listen for Alex absolutely losing it at the end. Clip 34:17 That's the genuine noise. That's the w it's one of the worst things I've ever heard in my life. I can talk you through what I think happened if you want. Well I it's not pleasant. I d I don't need you to because you've clearly shut you so much. That's what I sought. There was the passage of air, so uh the flaters had gone through Task tick. What it what in fact I had done is I'd uh dislodged a uh hammer that had been uh quite a long time. You're hearing that moving through my anal canal. That's a hemorrhoid popping out. And back out into the outside in full bloom. It's still flapping about. to this day. It's still loose. Oh, it's an absolute casserole down there. Oh my God, but you Sarah 35:10 Oh, my God. Clip 35:14 You get a task, you do the task. Dave 35:18 Pride of ownership, Mike Wozniak. That is my argument. I mean it is all that right there on the tin The only thing about watching the YouTube version of it is you just don't get the pacing of it in the episode because they've condensed it down to all the Mike Wozniak bits. Tara 35:29 Right. Dave 35:32 But we did a test Tara 35:33 As it were Dave 35:34 Yeah. We did a taskmaster favorite contestant, so I believe Mike Wozniak was both me and Taris number two after Sam Campbell, but it's a close number two, and I think this Tara 35:42 Mm-hmm. Sarah 35:44 Close number two. Dave 35:46 Whole season, yes, thank you. Sort of demonstrates why he was the absolute right pick to be on the Taskmaster spinoff. Where he was excellent, and where is the second season of that? But that's a discussion for another time. Alright, who wants to take first crack? Sarah. Sarah 36:00 I'll do it. Dave 36:01 First crack. Sarah 36:01 Um, since I'm not the crack, since I'm not a taskmaster regular. I think the beauty of this over and above the, you know, central topic of Flatus. Even with the cherry-picked Mike Wozniak bits all compressed together on YouTube, it's still that same quality of like you're moving through this sort of gag or series of bits and it's like, okay, haha, and then, okay, got it. Okay, haha. And then it just goes back around and so far like it pushes it so far that when you do get to the end and it ends on absolute casserole, which is just perfect. It is perfect. It is an egg of an expression to describe the nether situation. Oh my god. Like it's so it's so good. And the way it's structured works both seated throughout the episode and all cut together to give you the entire sequence in one compressed bit. Oh my god. Like, and that sound is just like I mean, I had to agree with Greg. Tara 37:12 Yeah. Sarah 37:14 That was one of the worst things I've ever heard in my life. Dave 37:15 Yeah. Sarah 37:17 But then that he's just very matter-of-factly, in an almost Attenborough way, being like, oh yeah, it's an absolute casserole down there. It's like That's that's what you want. Like the build of this was perfect and everyone involved, but chiefly Mike Wozniak understood. Not just the task, but the larger assignment of um doing justice to this the journey in this story of a hemorrhoid and also all of us. So excellent submission Tara 37:46 Mm-hmm. Sarah 37:47 I don't think it'll have any problem passing through the can and canals, but I guess we'll see. Tara Dave 37:54 Uh hang on one sec before Tara goes. I just started writing down things you weren't highlighting during your argument there. Moving bits back around pushes it, ends on compressed bits. Tara 38:02 Mm-hmm. Sarah 38:07 Mm-hmm. Dave 38:08 The other thing I will say about Mike Wozniak, beyond the whole committing to the fart challenge, is that he commits to everything in this season. There is a finale reveal that I won't spoil in case you ever watch it, but it was also legendary. Tara 38:21 Mm-hmm. Dave 38:21 Alright, tur. Tara 38:22 What Sarah does not know, because it doesn't come up in this clip, is that Mike is actually also a qualified doctor who worked as a doctor before he got into comedy. So this is why you have him using the term Flatus in this segment. Sarah 38:36 Mm-hmm. Sure. Tara 38:38 The benefit of the comparatively tiny comedy world in the UK is that when you're casting for something like this, like Alex knows this guy, he has a good idea of like, okay, if I was going to ask one of these contestants to be the only one who had to fart who is going to be the funniest with it. And I did love that Sarah Kendall, and I'm glad you clipped it, Dave, was like, look, I'm mad because I could have nailed this one. Dave 39:01 Yeah. Sarah 39:02 Mm-hmm. Dave 39:03 Uh this episode convinced me that I can Sarah 39:04 Sarah Bunting felt that way also. Tara 39:06 Mm-hmm. Sarah 39:06 There's always one. Dave 39:07 This episode convinced me that absolutely I could hang with Sarah Kendall. Tara 39:10 For sure. Dave 39:11 Yep. Tara 39:12 I mean, I can't believe Fr Freid didn't already do that, because she was amazing in that Dave 39:15 Sure. Tara 39:17 The noise is so it's so funny and then horrifying when you hear the end, as it were, of the story Sarah 39:22 Yes Tara 39:24 Like the true reactions of the horror are really part, as Dave said, so much part of what makes this payoff so, so, so, so funny. 'Cause Alex doesn't lose it like that very often. You know, he has to be in the edit all the time. There's very little that can surprise him, except in the studio, like in this case where it's like, oh, it wasn't what you thought it was actually this Sarah 39:47 Yeah, Tara 39:49 And the fact that this one task generates not one but two quotes for the Taskmaster Permanent Lexicon is really something TikTok, it's fart o'clock. Definitely comes up again. It's like TikTok tock, it's whatever o'clock And then uh you know, obviously, absolute casserole is forever. Dave 40:05 Yeah. Sarah 40:08 Oh, my God. Dave 40:09 I don't know if it's the same year, but we've had absolute paint job from I think you can leave and now absolute casserole from Taskmaster. It's a good time for absolute poo stuff. Tara 40:18 That might have been the same year as this, yeah. Dave 40:19 Yeah. Tara 40:20 I I'm not sure I would just like to also before we vote ask what everyone would do if they were handed this task. Because I would be like, bring me some raw red onions. I'm gonna eat as much of them I as I can stand and I will be farting in ten minutes. Dave 40:36 Yeah, mm-hmm. Tara 40:36 Sarah Mm-hmm. Sarah 40:37 Hmm. Dave 40:38 I got a suggestion for Sarah. Sarah 40:40 Uh veggie burger and some seltzer, the fizziest possible, so schwepps. Dave 40:45 Yeah. Tara 40:45 Sure Dave 40:47 Top with your mum's creamed onions. Tara 40:49 Oh, yeah. Sarah 40:49 Mm-hmm. Oh y well, I mean if you're going for stench, yeah. Dave 40:52 Yeah. Sarah 40:53 And those don't take long to manifest. Dave 40:55 No. No they didn't. Tara 40:57 Dave Dave 40:57 Well, I would just eat the salad I've been eating every night for the past little while. A gigantic salad, cabbage base. Tara 41:04 Mm-hmm. Dave 41:04 It's got red onions. Sarah 41:04 Yeah, say say less. Dave 41:05 It's got a whole slab of Sarah 41:07 You had us a cabbage. Dave 41:09 We've it's got a whole slab of uh, I don't know, wheat whey protein or something like that. I don't know if that's contributing to what is an incredible volume of supercinky farts. Tara 41:19 Including in his sleep, FYI Dave 41:19 So I Sarah 41:19 Yeah. Dave 41:21 Yeah, but I think Alex deliberately started this challenge before lunch for just this reason. Sarah 41:22 Yeah. Tara 41:27 Yeah. Yeah. Dave 41:29 Smart man. Everybody done? Tara 41:31 Yes Sarah 41:32 Yeah, Dave 41:32 Alright, uh Sarah D bunting our very first tiny flat cannon taskmaster, worthy or not. Sarah 41:39 Absolute yeserole. Dave 41:42 And Tara. Tara 41:43 Yes Dave 41:44 Yeah. Alright, so that means Mike Wozniak's fart challenge from Taskmaster. You are hereby inducted into the extra hot, great, tiny Flatchwin's cannon. Don't worry, I have a second candidate ready to go in the chamber. Sarah 42:00 Only one? Dave 42:01 Yeah. Sarah 42:01 Dang. Clip 42:03 Americans love a winner. Yeah. And will not tolerate a loser. Nope. Dave 42:08 It is time to discover who are our not quite winners and losers of the week. I will go first. My not quite winner is Wyatt Russell's. Monarch spin-off series. This was as a casting thing, but I had never heard that this was happening. Tara 42:21 No, Dave 42:21 So this is my winner that I know this is happening. We bailed on season two of Monarch because it was just so boring. Uh creating a show about Godzilla monsters and you manage to make it boring, like well done. But this one sounds like a Cold War thriller if Russia was close to controlling a Godzilla Tara 42:41 Mm-hmm. Dave 42:42 That could save this franchise. Tara 42:44 Yeah. Dave 42:44 It sounds great. Tara 42:45 Yep. Dave 42:45 And that character is good. So I'm looking forward to that. Tara 42:47 Mm-hmm. But you didn't say the casting part. Dave 42:50 Yeah, I don't care about the casting part. Tara 42:51 Oh, well Dave 42:52 That's why I said the casting part I don't whatever. It was more the introduction that the show exists via casting news. Tara 42:57 Sure. For anyone who does care, the casting news is Pilou Asbaek, the Danish star of Borgan. He's a guy who looks like Joshua Jackson but is Danish. Dave 43:05 Casper. Tara 43:06 Yes. Dave 43:07 Yeah. I have a second winner. It is Sex Criminals, the show that I've been talking about every once in a while, based on a comic book that is really weird. I don't know who this is, but I'm just want to give this bit of casting news because it is funny to me. Sex Criminals now featuring Ashley Cummings. Tara 43:23 Oh Mm-hmm good job Sarah 43:24 Oh Dave 43:26 Well done, Universe. Well done. Sarah 43:28 Jesus Dave 43:29 Not quite loser of the week, Rebecca Ferguson, potentially risking life and limb by publicly and probably properly stating that the famous Tom Cruise coconut cake is quote terrible. I mean, it's a coconut cake. It is by nature terrible because as we all know, coconut is the devil's pews Tara 43:49 We do know this is how you feel about it. Dave 43:51 Yeah. Tara 43:51 I just wanted to weigh in because I've had this cake. Dave 43:53 Uh-huh, and Tara 43:54 I don't go out of my way for coconut. I agree with you about the texture. I'm not a fan, but I like a coconut flavor. And it is uh the coconut is if I recall correctly, is like just in the frosting. So it's It's good. It's it's not i I would not say it's terrible. I wouldn't go out of my way to have it again though. Dave 44:12 What she says exactly. It's a terrible cake. Everyone knows it's not good, but everyone pretends like it is good, and I absolutely buy that. Tara 44:20 Of course, yes Sarah 44:20 Yeah. Dave 44:20 Yeah. Sarah 44:21 I mean also white chocolate, Fuck off. Dave 44:23 Yeah, also this cake could be part of Scientology, is for all we know. Sarah 44:24 Sorry. Dave 44:26 This doesn't one of the things you have to do, enjoy coconut cake. Tara 44:28 Hmm, interesting. Dave 44:28 Why not add it to the list? Serity bunting! Sarah 44:31 Do we have to reclose the food portal or no? Dave 44:33 No, that's only for Ask Yeshi. Sarah 44:34 Okay. Dave 44:35 Let's not get into every food mention needs to be closed. Sarah 44:35 Okay. Dave 44:37 That way leads chaos. Sarah 44:38 Okay, just just checking. My not quite winner is my own animation diet from a quarter century ago Two-parter, Genndy Tartakovsky has set a Conan the Barbarian show at Prime. Hat tipsy Kent for letting me know about this on Blue Sky. Dave 44:53 That feels like a perfect pairing. Sarah 44:56 Yeah. I mean I think it's probably just gonna be like redo the samurai Jack cells to be Conan, but that's fine. Dave 45:04 I bet it's more like his Clone Wars. Like the Clone Wars cartoon where it was basically just sandbox battles all the time and people dying pretty well for a cartoon for kids. Sarah 45:08 Oh yeah. Dave 45:14 I I I bet it's more like that. Sarah 45:15 Yeah, we'll see. Dave 45:16 Yeah. Yeah. Sarah 45:17 The other not quite winner is the Powerpuff Girls. They're getting a feature film spin-off from Warner Brothers animation. I feel like we've heard this before, so I Tara 45:26 They were gonna make a show on the CW, but it got killed. Sarah 45:29 Right, okay. Dave 45:30 But didn't it wait, I watched a first episode of some reboot. Sarah 45:31 So Yeah. Tara 45:33 I I think this the pilot leaked. Dave 45:36 Oh, okay. Got it, got it. It was bad, so good call. Sarah 45:39 My not quite loser is ponies, which I was looking forward to getting into, rolling around in like catnip, and uh it's already been cancelled at Peacock after one season. I am still gonna try it, but one word shows that start with P and only last one season that I love and there won't be any more of them. I'm I'm sad enough still about Primo, so Tara 46:01 This is what happens when instead of picking a show off your list, you watch Mad Men again Sarah 46:07 That was on the list, though. Tara 46:09 Right, but you watched it. You had already watched it. Sarah 46:11 Yeah. Yeah. Tara 46:13 Okay, that's all I'm saying. Dave 46:13 Well po it's not season one of Ponies is not going anywhere, he says, and then it gets pulled for tax reasons in two weeks. Tara 46:20 Uh they they definitely were doing a lot of press around it, so I think they were hoping that, you know, an an ME run could rescue it, but I guess they were getting early indications that that was not the case or even if it does get nominations, it's not enough. Dave 46:33 I predict we will talk more about ponies in two weeks' time on this very podcast, but just to put it out there, terrible name for the show did not help his chances, I think. Tara 46:42 Hmm. My not quite winner of the week is Task, by the way, Task. Dave 46:46 Woo woo you gotta pause for the woo-woo woo-woo. Tara 46:47 Very good show. We sorry Do you want me to do it again? Dave 46:52 No, moments pass. Woo-woo Tara 46:55 Task is good. I would have been fine with it stopping where it was, but I'm also interested in it going forward. I think they did a good job sort of Straddling the line of it being a limited series or not, which not every announced as a limited series show actually does, but anyway The reason it's the not quite winner of the week is that uh it has set an all-women directing team for season two, which is very cool. Sarah 47:10 Real Tara 47:18 Not quite loser of the week. This goes once again. Someone is mouthing off on social media instead of just telling it to the group chat. Dave 47:28 We need a uh sound drop for this. Sarah 47:29 Yeah. Dave 47:30 It's happening so often. Tara 47:30 We r we really do. Go back to your Fiverr guy and be like, tell it to the group text drop. Anyway, this time it's Paget Brewster because uh Screen rant critic named Shaylin Scott gave the whatever the latest version of Criminal Minds is that Paget Brewster is on a bad review. Paget decided to tweet at her that she sucks and that since a bad review can lead to three hundred and fifty people losing their jobs That critic should change careers was like, go work at an animal shelter. It's like Jesus Christ. Sarah 48:01 Wow Tara 48:03 Then, you know, it was reported same same exact cycle as with Hugh Laurie whenever we talked about that a couple of weeks ago weeks ago where it's like it gets reported and then they have to be like, uh, sorry. Like, just don't do it in the first place. Type it out, sleep on it, still see if you still think it's worth getting into a beef with some anonymous person who is just doing their job, by the way, it's criminal minds. Like, I'm sure it's not good. Sorry. Sarah 48:28 Yeah, Dave 48:28 Alright, strap in for Kim Rees, the most awesome thing I watched on TV last month. Kim 48:36 Hi, this is Kim Reed, and welcome to the most awesome thing I saw on TV last month. Last month I watched season 4, episode 18, of Little House on the Prairie called The Inheritance. So we open up best friends Laura Ingalls and Andy Garvey, building a clubhouse, which looks like a shed and also it's like eight feet tall. Where did they find all this lumber? Did they steal it from mister Hansen? Is mister Hansen even still around? Clip 48:56 But if I did go to the dinner, I mean Kim 48:57 He might be dead. We haven't seen him in a while So then Ma's fitting address on Carrie when Pa comes in bleeding profusely from the hand, which he blames on a tool, and as someone who nearly sliced your fingertip off while slicing potatoes a few days ago, I get it. I do kind of wonder how people's hands didn't just like fall off or lead to a terrible death because it's not like they had antibiotics. You could like wrap it up in an old cloth, but they probably didn't even use soap to clean it or anything. Anyway, Pa doesn't seem too concerned, and then Laura comes in and she wants to know what happened to Pa's hand, like they're making the biggest deal out of his hand, so it must be a major plot point life Ma's leg that one time. And then Mr. Garvey comes in and he has a telegram, but he also wants to know what happened to Pa's hand. Like this is literally the biggest news that's happened in weeks in Walnut Grove. Pa finally gets around to reading the telegram, and it sounds like a scam because it just says, if you're the son of Lansford and Laura Ingalls, contact this law firm. Ma's sure it's bad news, but If it was, like if someone died, wouldn't it just say, Hey, someone died? Like why would they have to contact a law firm to find out? So then maybe the next day or maybe three months later, who knows? It's long enough that Pa's hand is healed, so maybe that wasn't an important plot point, even though it took up a lot of time. Anyway. A lawyer shows up at the Ingalls homestead and he tells Pa that his uncle died, and Pa's like I have an uncle? And the guy's like, Yeah, your Uncle Edward and Pa's like doesn't ring a bell And the lawyer's like, You might have known him as Uncle Ned, and Pa's like, Can't say as I do. Anyway, once they get inside and have some lemonade, Pa remembers that he did go visit his Uncle Ned when he was like five, and Uncle Ned had a big house, and Pa swung from the chandelier like Sia The lawyer says, actually you're his heir, that the late Uncle Ned was kind of an asshole and a widower with no children. And Caroline wants to know if they're talking about a sizable estate. And the lawyer's like, come outside and take a look at my buggy, like Wouldn't a lawyer just state the facts plainly? Why does it have to be a riddle? Is he a bridge troll on the side? Anyway, they head out and they see that the carriage he has was made by the Ingalls Carriage Company, except they spell it I-N-G-A-L-L apostrophe S, which is incorrect and also annoying. The lawyer tells Ma and Pa that they now own this carriage company, and then they zoom in on the Ingalls Carriage Company plate, and it actually looks like someone figured out the apostrophe was in the the wrong place and they tried to cover it up, but the spacing makes it clear there was once an apostrophe there, and I'm not sure which is worse. Once again, it is bizarre to me that at no point we see does the lawyer actually give them even a ballpark figure of how much money they're going to get through this inheritance? Because that would be my first question. That night Ma and Pa are talking about what they might buy if they do actually get some money and Pa says he might get some new tools. And Ma says one time she saw a watch that you pinned to your blouse like a brooch. I mean, dream big, guys. So the next day Pa shows up to work at the mill and hey it's mister Hansen. I was just wondering about him. Anyway. mister Hansen says Pa can't resign from his job yet, and Pa says he hasn't seen a penny of the money, so he's just gonna go to work. Foreman and Pa's like, yeah, whatever, and Jonathan acts real weird about it. Over at the school, Miss Beadle, who's now Mrs. Sims, announces that it's time for their book Drive where they raise money to get books for the students. And Nelly says Laura should be in charge of it because her pocket just buy books for everybody. And Mrs. Sims gets real mad about it. Like instead of just saying Nellie Whether or not the Ingalls family has money as well as how they choose to spend it is none of our business. She gets like really mad and won't talk about it, and Laura and Mary roll their eyes and Andy Garvey look sad like People are reacting very strangely to this news that may not even be news because Pi hasn't seen a cent of it yet. That night Jonathan Garvey's doing his books and he says they won't even break even this year and he grumbles that Charles won't have that problem and his mouth wife is like Charles is your friend, and she jokes, maybe they should find a rich uncle. And then Andy says he wants to donate his 15 cents of chore money to the book drive. Always a laugh riot over at the Garbies. That night Reverend Alden stops by and at least he doesn't pretend like he's not there to ask for money, and Pa says they were planning on helping out the church anyway, and Reverend Alden says he was really hoping for a church organ. Pa says, You got it. I'm sure making all these promises before having the money won't backfire. So the next morning Laura tells Pa about the book drive and Pa says he'll buy the books. Like, what the Hell, guys? Isn't there something in the Bible about not counting your chickens before they're hatched or counting your fishes before they're hooked or something? So Ma and Pa go into the mercantile and Harriet introduces them to a journalist who's there to do a story and Pa's like why would anyone want to do a story about us? And the guy's like, Do you understand how much money you're getting? And I was like, actually no, do you And the journalist says it's a whole lot of money, so Ma and Pa reluctantly agree to get their pictures taken for this story, and Harriet can't wait to sell them new clothes for the pictures. Even though Pa points out they don't have any money, and Harriet says their credit's fine And Pa can't say no because Ma's so excited to get some new clothes. So Laura tells Mrs. Sims about her pa buying books for the school, and misses Sims is very happy about it, and she tells the whole class and Andy Garby's sad because his fifteen cents didn't really matter. Then Ma and Pa are trying on their fancy new clothes at the mercantile, and Nels tells Pa he already ordered the organ for the church, and Pa says Oh, and the school kids will be coming over to order their books and Nels wonders if there's anything else they need gold bars, a mansion Pa tells him about that watch you pin on like a brooch for Ma. Seems like the Engels family's really spending this money before they have it, and I'm sure everything will work out just fine. So the girls all get new clothes too and Ma lets them wear them home and Nelly walks with them because she tells Laura they're best friends now that Laura's rich. Laura spots Andy fishing by the creek and asks him if he wants to work on the clubhouse and he tells her her dress makes her look like Nellie Olson, not complimentary. And Laura says you You take that back. Guys, isn't Nellie standing right there? Anyway, Laura gets mad that Andy's being mean and runs away. Okay, so this scene was actually really cute. There's this giant rap up box sitting in the house that night and pa keeps pacing around and Ma says it's his birthday present and he says his birthday's not for three weeks and he can't wait that long and Ma says well I guess he'll have to And then Pa pulls a little package out and says, that's fine, because he has a present for Ma too. And her birthday isn't for three months. And he only has to wait three weeks, but she has to wait three months. And then they kind of have a staring contest and they're trying not to laugh and then they both just die for their presence and open them up. And you guessed it. Pa got a new set of tools and Ma got that watch that you pin on your blouse. The next day the Ingalls family are all wearing their new fancy clothes and the journalist shows up, but he tries to get them to look more like poor's with dirty faces, and then Pa grabs the guy by the jacket and bodily throws him out of the house, while the rest of the family cracks up, like we love it when Pa's violent The next day at work, Pa finds out Mr. Garvey's been trading farm work with some guy named Fred Wilson instead of Pa, because he figured Pa would just hire somebody to clear his fields and Pa gets mad and throws his clipboard. So then some time has passed, and misses Olsen tells Pa he needs to make a payment, 'cause he owes them a bunch of money, and Pa says he understands, but they're still waiting for the estate to clear, and misses Olsen says that he needs to sign a lien on his farm. Pa looks real serious, but he signs it anyway. And then when he gets to work, mister Hansen asks Pa if he's given any thought to buying the mill, and Pa shoves his clipboard at mister Hansen and leaves. Pa's doing a lot of clipboard acting in this episode. Finally the lawyer comes back, and as you probably guess, it's not good news. Turns out Uncle Ned was cuckoo crazy pants, as well as a Confederate sympathizer, and all of the money from his estate went to pay off his many sizable debts, and there's nothing left for the Ingalls family except for one lot box, which is only supposed to be opened by his heir. So Pa slowly opens the box and Ma screams out, MA!like she really screams it. And Pa says it's Confederate money. Pa yells at the lawyer that he borrowed against his inheritance and now he's gonna lose his farm and the lawyer's like, This is my problem because So Pa goes into the mercantile to try to work something out and Harriet's basically like, No, we're gonna auction off your farm and keep the money and they try to act like Harriet's It's the bad guy, but honestly she has creditors to pay. Of course, Harriet does take it a step too far and says that a man shouldn't spend money he doesn't have. Uh I think Pa gets that now. So then Pa brings out his tools to the barn for the auction. He says the family should go in the house when everyone gets there so they don't have to watch it. Anyway, the only people who show up for this auction are the regulars about the town, Reverend Alden, Doc Baker, Mr. Hansen, the Garbies, and Mrs. Sims. Harriet wants to wait for more people, but the auctioneer's ready to go. Turns out the fix is in because everybody just bids one cent or two cents for each item and the auctioneer has no choice but to sell it all off. Anyway, of course, once the auction's over, all the townspeople go to see Charles and they offer to sell him back as property for what they paid. Turns out Nels Olson stood out on the main road and turned away anybody from out of town so they could control the auction, and they all offered to sell Pa back his belongings for a total of six cents. Pa fights back tears and everyone apologizes for acting so weird when they thought he had money. This has gotta be like the third time that the town has had to pull together to save the Ingalls family. Like, are they really that great anyway? Everyone starts crying and hugging, and Laura and Andy agree to go build their clubhouse together. Does this mean that Harriet's gonna get taken to the poor house because she isn't gonna have any money for her creditors? Won't anyone think of Harriet? I just explained the whole situation to my husband to make sure I wasn't missing something, and he was like, No, Harriet's cooked. Clip 57:24 Well Kim 57:24 I mean, presumably she and Nels have enough money that this won't ruin them, but they just basically paid for all the books, the church organ, the Ingalls' new clothes, and the brooch, and the tool set. Justice for Harriet, and she was sabotaged by her own husband, who was colluding with the likes of Doc Baker and Jonathan Garvey the audacity Anyway, Laura and Andy used the Confederate money to wallpaper the clubhouse, and that was the most awesome thing I saw on TV last month. Tara 57:59 Welcome in, grandpas. You've missed a good hour of discussion about such things as the Bear Season Five. The Fortnite skins we would suggest, some of which may have already happened. What we think the vertical drama arrival on Peacock is a bellwether for industry wise, of course The first entry, and definitely not the last in the tiny flatulence canon, and much more. Go to extrahotgreat.com/club to kick up your pledge and you can get this whole episode and all of the archives. We'd love to have you. Today's extra credit topic is a joint effort by several people. people. It led off with a question from Catherine who wrote, What beloved TV show from your youth are you hesitant to revisit because you worry that you'll realize it wasn't as good as you remember? I also piggybacked on this. Is there one you tried and found out for sure it wasn't? Passlaku asked, what is a recent television series that you have rewatched? Not good or bad, just what is it? And then back to me, what is your most rewatchable show. So let's go around the horn. We'll all answer each question. Dave, what beloved TV show from your youth are you hesitant to revisit? Because you worry you'll realize it wasn't as good as you remember. Dave 59:15 Yeah, so my youth is the 70s and 80s, so the answer is almost all of them. Tara 59:21 Yeah. Dave 59:21 The ones that I yet to revisit, and honestly, probably won't. MacGyver I really love, but let's face it, it's gonna be extremely formulaic, same way probably as the A-Team, which I would never watch again. Sarah 59:33 And slow Tara 59:34 Yeah Dave 59:35 And the other one which I felt like at the time it was pushing some boundaries, but probably doesn't hold up super well now was Sledgehammer. I loved Sledgehammer as a kid. Tara 59:44 Mm, mm Sarah 59:46 Mm-hmm. Dave 59:46 It was the closest thing to airplane, which I thought was the funniest fucking thing ever. But it is still quite funny, but Tara 59:51 It's pretty funny. Dave 59:52 Sledgehammer was in the same vein and they had a Hell of a finale. Everybody remembers the finale where they just nuked the whole show, like literally detonated a nuclear bomb to end the show. But I don't think it probably holds up. Sarah 01:00:03 God. Dave 01:00:06 So probably those two. Sarah 01:00:08 This is a tough one for me because as uh you know, I did not watch that much TV. In my youth, it wasn't on PBS or signed off on by the parental committee, so that's A, and B, I have gone back over a lot of it over the course of this podcast slash previous websites And you're always looking at stuff, same era as Dave, where like either it held up just great and the culture knows it, like Cheers or the Golden Girls, or it was very evidently never going to hold up even for more than a couple of seasons. Brady Bunch, Double Trouble, that garbage, and the culture knew that too, about these shows. So I was sort of mulling over like what was I allowed to watch? What were the reruns that I saw? What were my favorite shows? And then I was like, oh, Fuck, this is Benson. That is also on the list to re-watch, and it's sort of like, please let that still be good, but I still haven't done it, and I think part of me is afraid that it won't be good. Tara 01:01:08 Hmm. Mm-hmm. I'm we're all the same age, so seventies, eighties. I have con Considered rewatches of Moonlighting in LA Law, which I did watch in the 80s, even though I was in elementary school because my parents did not care. I was allowed to watch Basically whatever I wanted. I doubt either of those would hit as hard for me as they did when I was an annoying child who thought it was proof of how sophisticated I was that I watched them even though half or more of Both shows went over my head. I know our dear friends have rewatched both of those shows recently and are probably getting ready to yell at me. Sorry to carry in Adam Grosswirth, but Sarah 01:01:46 Mm-hmm. Tara 01:01:47 Convince me that I it's not gonna be a lapdown. I also do wonder speaking of shows I watched that I thought made me sophisticated 30 something? I wonder if that would also be true if I tried it now or if the Holtzmanzwick DNA would be strong enough to put it over, or Herskowitz, rather, not Holzman. Sarah 01:01:55 Yes, that was on my long list. Yeah. Tara 01:02:05 So that's mine. All right, next, a show you tried and found out for sure. It w it wasn't as good as you remembered, Dave. Dave 01:02:13 Well, we wa tried to watch Three's Company a couple months ago and I was like, no, I'm out, I can't do it. Tara 01:02:16 Mm-hmm. Dave 01:02:18 It just wasn't great. It wasn't as farcical as I remembered either. At least not in the first half of the first season or whatever we got to. Tara 01:02:26 Yeah. Dave 01:02:26 It was sorta just There and although I will say the gay panic adjacent jokes weren't as bad as I feared Tara 01:02:34 That was surprising. Dave 01:02:35 Yeah, that was a little surprising to me, but just generally speaking, it wasn't as funny as I remember. And I don't even know what would have hooked me as a kid to a show like that. Like so much of it would have gone over my head, but Tara 01:02:46 Yeah. Sarah 01:02:46 Yeah. Tara 01:02:47 Well it's it's loud, it's busy, there's physical comedy, yeah. Dave 01:02:50 Physical comedy, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sarah 01:02:51 Yeah Tara 01:02:52 Sarah Sarah 01:02:53 Okay, Tara knows probably what I'm gonna say, but the monkeys. This happened like at least 20 years ago, but I got Tara the DVDs, I think, as a gift for some occasion, and then when I was visiting Tara 01:03:07 Mm-hmm. Sarah 01:03:07 No? Tara 01:03:08 No, no, no. Sarah 01:03:08 Almost sure if that's well, okay. We I know that we were in your house on Delaware and we were in the like upstairs TV room. We tried to watch That it was like, all right, let's try this. I mean, we, you know, have watched a ton of it when we were kids. I think we got two minutes into the first episode, and Dave was like, absolutely not. Went downstairs to do something else. Tara and I barely achieved a full episode before bailing. I had expected it to be at least quaint in its datedness or like interesting to look at, but oh my god, it was unbearable. I think we skip to a later episode to see if things evened out that I mean they did, just like it's not good. It's everything the sitcom averse hate. It looks cheap. Mickey Dolenz is trying his best, but that's part of the problem. It's just so much. Music is still great, but as a show, insupportable. Dave 01:04:08 I have a just a clarification in case anybody's like, huh? Me and Tara have never lived in Delaware. We lived on Delaware and Toronto. Tara 01:04:16 Yes. Dave 01:04:16 Just want to clear that up. Tara 01:04:17 Mm hmm. Dave 01:04:17 And just unrelated, but I just want to pull the panel. When you print out the letter A, do you use single story A's or double story A's? Tara 01:04:26 Single, why Dave 01:04:28 I'm just curious because I was just realizing that I'm a double A double story A person and and single A's look like a a child voted to me for some reason. Tara 01:04:36 Okay. Sarah 01:04:36 I don't understand. Dave 01:04:37 Uh A circle with a stick is the single story and then like the fancy A is a double story. Sarah 01:04:44 Oh single story Dave 01:04:46 Okay. Tara 01:04:46 Mm-hmm. Dave 01:04:46 Alright. Surrounded by children. Sarah 01:04:50 Seriously. Dave 01:04:51 I don't have time for your A shenanigans. Tara 01:04:53 I did used to write them like that when I did more handwriting, but I not now. Sarah 01:04:54 Yeah. Dave 01:04:57 Sorry. Tara 01:04:58 We recently decided to try to watch the Mighty Boosh after we finished a Toast of London rewatch and that lasted one and a quarter episodes. Sarah 01:05:02 Oof. Yeah. Dave 01:05:06 No, no. Tara 01:05:07 did not take. Sarah 01:05:08 Yeah, no Tara 01:05:08 I feel like it's a style of comedy that is so specific to like the specific five-year period when it was made that like when we rewatch spaced Recently ish for a Canon presentation, same kind of thing. Gavin and Stacy the same. We were uh gifted the season and watched the first one and were like, no thanks, which I think we got into too late. Dave 01:05:29 It's it's always painful when somebody wants you to watch a TV show they love so much to the point where they give it to you, and you're like, I can't. Tara 01:05:38 Mm-hmm Dave 01:05:38 Sorry, that person. Sarah 01:05:39 Yeah Tara 01:05:40 I also think Twin Peaks, put your guns down. I think Twin Peaks has a half-life where the more you revisit it, the more threadbare it feels. I don't think it I think it does not hold up to long term scrutiny. Again, please don't come for me. Dave 01:05:56 But isn't Twin Peaks more of a I don't I hate v I hate to use vibe show, but isn't it sorta more like that? Tara 01:06:00 Sure. Dave 01:06:02 Isn't that the approach you take? Tara 01:06:03 Yeah, but I think the power that it has grows less and the more you come back to it Dave 01:06:06 Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sarah 01:06:08 Mm-hmm. Dave 01:06:09 Sure. Tara 01:06:09 hence the half life analogy. Dave 01:06:10 Right, right. Tara 01:06:11 And I recently finished a Mad About Your Rewatch on my own. A lot of it is very funny. We have a canon presentation coming up from it by me from season two, but boy, those post baby seasons are f Fucking awful. And when they did when they revived it in 2019, borderline unwatchable. Sarah 01:06:25 Mm-hmm. Tara 01:06:29 Holy bit. Holy moly. Really bad. Dave 01:06:31 You know how they say women they give birth and they're like never fucking again and then their brain chemistry is like, babies, babies. Tara 01:06:35 Yeah. Mm-hmm. Dave 01:06:39 I feel like this something similar happens. when men have children, when they also have TV shows, and they're like, you know what people need to know about my experience with children? Tara 01:06:45 Uh huh, sure, mm-hmm Dave 01:06:49 They're like, no, we don't, because it's not it's not as funny. Sarah 01:06:50 Yeah, no. Dave 01:06:51 So please just continue to do that. You know who never had a baby? Seinfeld. Tara 01:06:55 It's true. Sarah 01:06:55 Mm-hmm. Thank God. Tara 01:06:57 All right, uh On to Paz Laku's unqualified question. What is a recent television series you have rewatched? That's the question. You don't have to say what you felt about it, just what's something recent? Dave 01:07:12 Shit. Tara 01:07:12 Dave. Dave 01:07:12 Well, we did watch rewatch Taskmaster about a year and a half ago from start to finish or thereabouts. Tara 01:07:17 Yeah, sure. Dave 01:07:18 So that's recent-ish. Even though the first season is not so recent anymore, I guess. Uh what we do in the shadows we re-watched relatively recently as well. Tara 01:07:26 No, t it was Toast and London. Dave 01:07:28 Oh yeah, Toastal London, sure. Tara 01:07:30 Sarah Sarah 01:07:31 Mad Men and Primo. Dora Tara 01:07:33 The last show we rewatched before we got into our current rewatch, which I'm about to talk about, is was Superstore. That was the last thing we went from stem to stern. Dave 01:07:40 Yeah, mm hmm Tara 01:07:42 Finally, back to me. What is your most rewatchable show? Dave, I think I know the answer, but go ahead. Dave 01:07:48 Sure, you want to say it together? Three, two, one, thirty rock. Tara 01:07:51 The Simpsons. Oh! Dave 01:07:53 Oh no, okay, wait Here's my problem with The Simpsons and how my brain is wired. The Simpsons is a show I enjoy a lot, seasons X to Y, but in my brain it's a show that happens to you, not one that you seek out, right? Tara 01:08:02 Yes Sure. Dave 01:08:08 Because For the longest time, either I would watch new episodes on Fox on Sundays, or there were a total of five episodes in syndication I could watch and did a day where Tara 01:08:20 In Toronto. Dave 01:08:20 Yeah, in in Toronto, Niagara that whole part because you had Toronto stations, you had Buffalo stations, you had local and national stations, and they all had Simpsons at a different time. Tara 01:08:25 Yep. Yep. Dave 01:08:30 So you had up to five episodes. And in my brain, that's how I consumed the Simpsons. It's just like, well, what do we got here? Before we got too far into the bad seasons where the ROI finding out what that episode was was too dicey. Tara 01:08:42 Yep. Dave 01:08:43 So that's why I said 30 rocks. Tara 01:08:44 Yeah, fair enough. Dave 01:08:45 For some reason 30 rock is okay to re-watch on Peacock or wherever it is, but Simpsons Also, Simpsons is sort of a chore for some reason in my brain because before Disney just stuck them all up there, they had that Simpsons World site and you had to go like log separate log and Tara 01:08:53 Hm right, right, right. Yeah. Sarah Sarah 01:09:02 I thought this was also from my youth, so From my youth, I would say golden girls were cheers, but generally law and order verse. Dave 01:09:12 Sure Sarah 01:09:12 Tara Tara 01:09:13 Mine is news radio, which we're re-watching now. Dave 01:09:15 Yeah. Tara 01:09:15 I think this is at least our third rewatch since we have been living in this house, which is since twenty nineteen. Dave 01:09:19 Yep The Bill McNeil talking about being adequate episode, which I forgot about all his variations on the word adequate, adequadosity, adequatolitz. Tara 01:09:27 Yes. Adequatulance is the last one, yeah Episodes I have seen at least ten times still make me laugh out loud. I've definitely seen Friends More for the syndication reason. Like that's another show that just sort of happens to me. Dave 01:09:40 Yep. Just go to the left and it's one, two, three, four doors down. Tara 01:09:46 Yes. Perfect cane weather. Yeah, news radio is great. But I agree with you about 30 Rock. That was what I was going to put on post Superstore until I remembered News Radio and thought it probably been long enough. So news radio. And that's it. Dave 01:10:01 And that's also it for this episode of Extra Extra Hot Great We ordered up one last time for the Bears final season before answering your burning Ask EHG questions like, what's the best ice cream flavor and how is TV changing Fortnite? Dave squirted out a f The squirted out a fine Dave squirted out a tiny flat ones canon win. Tara 01:10:19 Dave Dave 01:10:26 We celebrated those who were quite the best and worst of the week. Kim pass along the treasure that was Little House on the Prairies, the inheritance, and we wrap it all up with a look at the joys and tribulations of re-watching TV shows from our youth and beyond. Next up is another three of these on Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday with the 70s sci-fi program UFO.remember. Clip 01:10:53 We're listening. Dave 01:10:55 I am David Ticole and on behalf of Tara Ariano, Sarah D Bunting. Tara 01:10:58 Tick tock, it's onion o'clock. Sarah 01:11:02 It's one of the worst things you've ever heard in your life. Dave 01:11:06 Thanks for listening. We'll see you next time right here on Extra Extra Hot Great. Clip 01:11:21 I'm selling the fucking building to the first person who farts at me. Okay, good. Rolling. Rolling. Rolling. Oh no, that wasn't it This uh XY Great Minis, today's topic is you do know Jack. Today's Extra Hot Great mini Oh God. So close. Coop, there I am. Uh today's Extra Hot Great mini comes from me and it is who is your favorite TV Jack? There are a couple of exceptions that I allowed, like Jacques and Jackie, but we're talking about characters named Jack, not actors. Dave. Uh Jack Bristow. For being kick-ass, for being a cold motherfucker. And most importantly, for that one beard disguise, which Tara called BeardWiser the king of beards in an old swap recap. And that might be my favorite thing we've ever done on that site. King of Beards. Makes me laugh every time I think about it. It was like in uh uh I was just subbing one one week it was like early on Season two, maybe. He's got this most pubic hair looking beard we've ever seen. It is so bad looking, but it is j it goes so high too. It goes up to like level with the bridge of his nose. Like that's not how beard. For that reason, Jack Bristow. Uh Tara. Okay, mine is I might be stealing one from Sarah, but Jack McCoy. In addition to the fact that I feel a kinship with him as a fellow migraine sufferer slash Sumatriptan prescribee, which we found out when uh Serena Southern made a point by looking up a bunch of his shit on the internet, he's also Like me, a grown-up leftist Pinko, he bagged Claire Kincaid and young Livia Soprano, and he's mad about everything all the time. Jack McCoy. Omar. Uh, for sentimental reasons, Jack Tripper all the way. It still makes me sad that John Ritter died so young and he was so incredibly warm and funny and weirdly horny all at the same time on Three's Company. Sarah. These are all excellent choices. I'm gonna go with uh my animated boyfriend, Samurai Jack. Nice. Very nice. That that's it? Yeah. Oh, I see. It was performance piece because you didn't say anything, it was a summary check. I get it now. Fuck yeah