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 rΓ©sumΓ©s for Game Time. Good morning, Bensons -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS π€ Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: π«§ Soap Around The Dial: βοΈ The Circle Around The Dial: π Nailed It Around The Dial: πΌ Pop-Up Video Around The Dial: πββοΈ Battle Of The Network Stars The Canon: π§ββοΈ Normal People S01.E10: Episode 10 Winner & Loser: π Ted Lasso Winner & Loser: π Amazing Stories Game Time: π§ Working Hard Or Hardly Working? NOTES π Full episode notes can be found on the episode 366 page on ExtraHotGreat.com π¦ Jeff Drake On Twitter π°ββοΈ Tara's interview with Married At First Sight showrunner MontrΓ© Burton at Decider π³ Watch Jeff Drake's show, Central Park , on AppleTV+ πΏ Jeff just released an album! Listen to it on Basecamp πΌ Watch a big old playlist of vintage Pop-Up Video π Watch the 1976 Battle Of The Network Stars ππ»ββοΈ Or skip directly to the notorious Robert Conrad relay πΆ Get more music-documentary content on the Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Patreon