About this episode
The talented EHG Assist team tasked the panel -- plus returning guest Jeff Drake! -- with talking about shows and episodes that shouldn't have worked, but somehow did. We began our theme episode with the late-'70s satire Soap . Do the problematic parts justify the hilarity around them? Is some of the bad acting and slow pacing an homage of sorts to daytime dramas? Should you (re-)watch, or just find a supercut of all the previouslies and next-ons? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Circle , Nailed It! , Pop-Up Video , and Battle Of The Network Stars , before a complete 180 in tone brought us to a Canon submission from 2020's Normal People . AppleTV+ both won AND lost, and then we all updated our quiz résumés for Game Time. Good morning, Bensons -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🫧 Soap Around The Dial: ⭕️ The Circle Around The Dial: 🎂 Nailed It Around The Dial: 📼 Pop-Up Video Around The Dial: 🏃♀️ Battle Of The Network Stars The Canon: 🧍♂️ Normal People S01.E10: Episode 10 Winner & Loser: 👍 Ted Lasso Winner & Loser: 👎 Amazing Stories Game Time: 🧠 Working Hard Or Hardly Working? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 366 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake On Twitter 👰♀️ Tara's interview with Married At First Sight showrunner Montré Burton at Decider 🌳 Watch Jeff Drake's show, Central Park , on AppleTV+ 💿 Jeff just released an album! Listen to it on Basecamp 📼 Watch a big old playlist of vintage Pop-Up Video 🌠 Watch the 1976 Battle Of The Network Stars 🏃🏻♂️ Or skip directly to the notorious Robert Conrad relay 🎶 Get more music-documentary content on the Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Patreon