Sweet Tea & TV

It’s a tale as old as time. Boy asks girl to the dance. Boy’s father says no. Girl’s mom protests. Boy’s father asks the girl's mom on a date. You got all that? Yeah, we needed to watch this one a few times, too, but don’t worry! When the plot thickens, we’re here to break it. All. The. Way. Down. Stick around for “Extra Sugar” where we unpack “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”, including the barriers...

On this week’s "Designing Women", we learn about an extra branch on the Sugarbaker family tree - and he’s named Clayton. That’s right, Clayton Sugarbaker joins us from his latest stay at the “Macadamia Ranch”. Julia wants to put him on display, while Suzanne hopes maybe they don’t have to tell anyone about his mental health issues. Who would have ever guessed they would disagree on something??? Bu...

Grab your mandatory fluffy robe, tissue, and a pint (or two) of Häagen-Dazs: it’s a breakup episode. And when Charlene cries, we cry. But we have questions like: do people still watch “Home Shopping” in the Amazon age? Do you really not “care about your appearance” if you have a full face of makeup on? Will Charlene ever “get hip” to the MTV generation? Stick around for this week’s "Extra Sugar" t...

We meet the man, the myth, the terrifying legend: T. Tommy Reed. That’s right, Anthony’s infamous cellmate tracks him down to make him an offer he [probably] can’t refuse. Meanwhile, we’re still hotly debating what’s worse: Anthony’s plight or Mary Jo’s staycation with JD and their combined five children.  Stick around for this week’s "Extra Sugar" where we talk about our favorite staycation spots...

When good intentions meet bad intentions, we get multiple Santas, a robbery, and an injured elf. Can the gals + Anthony salvage the Christmas spirit?! Uh, duh, it’s the 80s. Dollars to donuts: we’re all singing “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” before it’s all done.   Stick around for this week’s "Extra Sugar" where we talk about Southern Christmas traditions AND our standout Christmas memo...

Mary Jo, Suzanne, Charlene, and Julia reluctantly find themselves on a date with Howard, a walking nosebleed they met on the singles cruise. At his 15-year high school reunion. Where he’s telling people he slept with all of them. Will they (will we?) make it through his revenge fantasy? Stick around for this week’s "Extra Sugar", where we discuss TV, books, and food we’re enjoying right now.

It’s Design Expo ‘87, baby, and you know what that means: Charlene, Mary Jo and Julia come down with the plague, while a terrible snow storm forces Anthony and Suzanne to cuddle up in a Tennessee motel room. But the most unexpected reveal? Definitely Charlene’s domestic meat allergy that one year in high school. Stick around for this week’s "Extra Sugar" where we dig into the history of interracia...

Charlene’s psychic didn’t see Colonel Bill Stillfield coming. That’s OK, we didn’t see this 1940s “fever dream” musical coming, so… hope you’re up to date on your WWII-era history and references! (A quick primer: America, good. HItler, bad. Rations were a thing.) And we’ll dig into one big, little reference, the Hollywood Canteen, in "Salina’s Sidebar." Stick around for this week’s "Extra Sugar" w...

What’s worse than a single’s cruise? Four women bunking together in something roughly the size of a large walk-in closet? Maybe. Dinner seating with strangers? Warmer. Rebuffing the advances of someone whose shirt is unbuttoned uncomfortably low? Yep, that’s the one. Suzanne and Mary Jo go head-to-head to see who can land the best looking man, and we meet Claude, who is a darn delight -- and the s...

On this week’s “Designing Women” episode, we get a BIG health scare (not as big as season 1, episode 12/13 , but a big one nonetheless.) Julia explores her true feelings for Reese, while fending off the romantic advances of one of his lifelong “frenemies.” And, one of our characters has an expected spurt of superhero, while another has to read an...uncomfortable...letter at a former client’s...fun...

Ah, another one of Suzanne’s exes. This time it’s Dash Goff, the writer, and he’s sad, but he perks himself by individually meeting with each cast member. By the end, we all learn a few things: 1) Suzanne was a terrible spouse (?), 2) reading is important, and 3) Dash sure knows how to write some uncomfortable stuff about Southern women. Stick around for this week’s ‘Extra Sugar’ to discuss Dash I...

Phew! We did it! We squeezed in for a last-minute virtual viewing of the recent Designing Women play . That’s right - we said play! Set in 2020, as one would expect, LBT’s thoughts on politics, religion, and public health were on full display and we had…thoughts. 

A holiday gift from us to you! We had originally planned to take the next couple of weeks off for the holidays. But, then we watched the recent Designing Women play and ended up with a special sweet treat for the podcast. We’ll start this week with a sneak peek of our reactions and we’ll be back next week with what we’re calling “The Full Sweet Tea & TV Treatment.” 

Our "Designing Women" and poor Anthony have a knack for finding the most eccentric clients. This time it comes in the form of Mr. Tyson, who enjoys painting stick figure portraits and giving away anything that happens to be in his pocket at the time. Did we mention he falls in love easily? Meanwhile, Bernice shows up looking for help--and boy is that a mouthful.  Stick around for this week’s ‘"Ext...

Grab some tissue, no, like the whole box ‘cause this one is a gut puncher. Designing Women takes on the AIDS crisis, homophobia, and contraception in schools all in one episode.  Stick around for this week’s ‘Extra Sugar’ where we discuss the real events that inspired this one...right down to the episode title, as well as Designing Women’s place in LGBTQ TV history. 

Hooray for an Anthony Bouvier episode! This time, he finds himself a lady friend and cooks up a scheme to have her and her parents over for dinner, while making them think he’s wealthy and successful, as one does. Unfortunately, his lady friend’s daddy isn’t super into the whole thing and he cooks up a little scheme of his own to get rid of Anthony. (Hint: This scheme is adorable and cries a lot....

Mary Jo is having a rough go: she finds out Ted is getting remarried, while simultaneously luring their kids away with his extravagant lifestyle and gifts. Suzanne teaches us a lesson about frenemies (sort of), Charlene almost gets the hang of metaphors, and Anthony reaches gold-level status. Hang around for this week’s scrumptious "Extra Sugar", where we’re talking Turkey Day, but with a Southern...

It’s season 2, y’all! Our “Designing Women” gals find themselves sprucing up an old gas station for an unexpected client, who Julia goes off on and Charlene (de?) pantses to see if he is her future husband. And if we’ve learned anything: be sure to have a licensed professional check out any funky moles. Stick around for this week’s Extra Sugar where we talk all things 1987.

As we recorded season 1 of "Sweet Tea & TV", some alarming gaps in Nikki’s movie history came to light. What were two podcasters to do?? Watch the darn thing and talk about it. What first reactions did someone in 2021 have about a 1990 rom-com where a sex worker finds fairy tale romance with a handsome corporate raider? You know we’re not going to say! But we will tell you we broke down some fun t...

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sure, we’ve wrapped our review of "Designing Women"'s first season (and incidentally the first season of the podcast), but we need ONE more episode to process it all. So we did what we do best: we ate the snacks, drank the drinks, and chatted the chats(?). Stick around for ‘Extra Sugar’ where we talk about the less-than-stellar critical reception from, well, pretty much only male...

This week's episode comes with a trigger warning: it's all about sexual harassment and assault. If that’s triggering for you, press “pause” and come back to us next week.  If you stick around, we'll talk about this week’s Designing Women episode, which was the season 1 finale, Bachelor Suite. Mary Jo is confronted with a difficult (and dangerous) client, but tries to stick it out for the Benjamins...

This week, Designing Women fiiiiiiinally introduces us to the source of one of Suzanne’s monthly alimony checks, a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves! And he’s got a little {steamy} light reading for his ex-wife. And after the show, we’ll take you out to the ball game in “Extra Sugar”, where we learn a bit more about Atlanta’s hometown baseball heroes, the Braves. (You bring the Cracker Jack!)

Money may not buy happiness, but it will buy you a tennis bracelet, Rolex, convertible Mustang, and a horse. The "Designing Women" find themselves literally caught in the crossfire of their new clients, The Tates, who are just as crazy as they are rich. Will our lady loves + Anthony make it out alive?? Hang around for this week’s "Extra Sugar", where we talk about Bill “Bojangles” Robinson after a...

Uh-oh...on this week's "Designing Women", we find out two things: 1.) Mary Jo has a complicated relationship with her dad, and 2.) he has the hots for Charlene. Stick around for this week’s ‘Extra Sugar’ to see how Salina handles a rapid fire game all about sororities -- and Nikki shares some memories along the way.

Let's have a cleansing cry together, shall we?? In this week's "Designing Women", two big things happen: Suzanne falls in love with the little girl she temporarily adopts, and then we try and scrape ourselves off the floor...but we’re sobbing too hard. But, hey! We stopped crying long enough to talk about the weird history of one of the most popular toys from the 1980s in this week’s ‘Extra Sugar’...