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SPECIAL: I legitimately have no idea what I'm doing; but here's what I can tell you for certain WILL happen in what will BARELY pass as a Christmas Special: 01:34 - Intro 06:31 - Pho-HO-HOne-O-Rama 22:00 - THAT Folgers commercial (You know the one) 35:00 - INTERLUDE: "12 Days of Xmas" by Norm MacDonald 38:54 - THE FIRST 8 SHOWS OF SEASON 7 (All topics & airdates subject to change) 57:10 - Our Obli...

S PECIAL: With the Boss out for Thanksgiving, and me not having eaten Surface food in a long time, I'm raiding his fridge to pull out 6 leftovers from our Patreon that are guaranteed to give Advertisers (and myself) some indigestion… Filmed in front of a Live bag of Marshmallows; if you want to skip over the wraparound segments where I'm stuffing my face with them for dramatic effect, here's what'...

It's our Quasi-annual Quest into the world of Questions, Queries & Queasts (There's "Mr. Show" fans here, right?). If we use your question, we send you one of our Swag packs, it's That Simple! NEXT SHOW: THANKSGIVING ("The Telehell Feast of Gluttony"; our look at bad food commercials) SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives RetroCIRQ Kier's Nostalgia Corner And our Patrons

SPECIAL: Guest host Scott Mason ( Play Like a Jet Podcast ) is here to guide you through the world of Sports...Particularly, Sports Gimmicks that were designed to bring in more viewers, but instead caused those same viewers to change the channel at world record speeds SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq Kier's Nostalgia Corner And our Patrons

SEASON 6 FINALE: Having been captured by The Boss and placed inside his new invention, "The Genre-Mat"; He is now forcing me to not only sit through one of the Worst TV Shows of All time, but do so in a way that requires funding from a grant by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq Kier's Nostalgia Corner And our Patrons AND VERY SPECIAL THANKS to the Fol...

The Wrecks of '98 continues with Malcolm McDowell trying to fill some big, rich corinthian leather shoes; as he learns the Hard way that not everything needs to be re-made. SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq Kier's Nostalgia Corner And out Patrons

And Down the stretch we come for Season 6...Presenting the first of Three shows from one of the most formative years of my life. "The Wrecks of '98" begins with a simple question...did the world REALLY Need a poorly computerized Ed Sullivan to introduce novelty acts, or was this just a case of Digital Grave Robbing? SPONSORED BY Dave's archives Retrocirq Kier's Nostalgia Corner And our Patrons

Nate Ragland ( Post Modern Art Podcast ) and I use the power of Magic to make aproximately $62 Million in Production & Animation costs disappear; as we look at a show that NBC foolishly went All In on in 2004... 4TH ANNUAL CHARITY EPISODE: From 6/9 to 6/23, We will donate $1 per click between TWO Charites this year (MAXIMUM OF $666 split between the two); Donors Choose & Prizeo SPONSORED BY: Dave'...

NEXT WEEK is our 4th Annual Charity episode; but before we get to it we want to spend just a couple of minutes talking about the causes we'll--yes, there Will be a "We" in this show--be supporting this year ( Donors Choose & Prizeo ) Thanks to Darren Marlar of Weird Darkness for being The Boss

Time to fulfil another Patreon request; this time, Ed Batey Jr. wants us to look at the FOX sitcom that tried to be "The Wonder Years"...Was it fair to consider this show an out-and-out "Ripoff", or did it have its own vision of what the 1960s looked like? SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq Kier's Nostalgia Corner And our Patrons

Why worry about ACTUAL Problems in the world when one can worry about getting ready for the Senior Prom? This 1988 TV Movie with an All-Star cast shows us anything that can (and does) go wrong during that special night... SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq (Who we thank for sending us a copy of the movie With Original Commercials) Kier's Nostalgia Corner And our Patrons

As Saturday Night Live approaches its 50th year on the air, Yours Truly is approaching 30 years as a viewer/fan...Unfortunately; I Became a fan of the show during one of their Darkest times...Brace yourself, we're discussing SNL Season 20... CONTENT WARNING (41:36 - 48:00): A sketch involving certain kinds of Scum who belong in the Actual Hell. SPONSORED BY Dave's Archives Retrocirq Kier's Nostalg...

Dammit, we made it! 100 Episodes...and for the occasion, we're going to do things a little "Differently" while taking a look at a show that may have been a little Blasphemous to some viewers... SPONSORED BY Dave's Archives Retrocirq And Our Patrons And a SPECIAL THANK YOU To Everybody who has listened to the past 100 shows...even if This is your first time...

Our look at TV things that have the Underworld as a theme continues, as I get roped into pet sitting for the Boss' Hellhound...This 1970s TV Movie Schlockfest tells you what NOT to do when taking care of your domesticated demon. Thank, still once again, Darren Marlar of Weird Darkness for being the Boss... SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq And our Patrons

It's hard to imagine that we've been doing this for (Almost) 100 episodes; and YET, we have Yet to cover TV shows that actually have a Hell-ish undertone...That all changes with this "Hell Week" of shows, starting with Sammy Davis Jr.'s Love Letter to the Underworld... Thanks--as always--to Darren Marlar of Weird Darkness , and to our own Joan Bishop. SPONSORED BY Dave's Archives Retrocirq And our...

Why let Snow White and a bunch of Underachiving actors hog the spotlight of "Dumbest Oscar Moments" when there's nearly 100 years of ceremonies to sift through? These are some of the other "Dumb" moments that deserve the award for "Best reason to shake your head in shame" SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq And our Patrons

Scott Mason ( Play like a Jet podcast) Joins us at the 50-yard line as we take a look at the Three (theatrical) Halftime shows that may have caused the powers that be in the Football world to change their gameplans... Also, after you listen to this show, catch me trying to pretend to talk about football as I make a Guest Appearance on "Play like a Jet" SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq And o...

Here they come...walking down the street...gettin' funniest looks from everyone they meet...Partially because these Monkees don't look a thing like the ones they're supposed to be based on. Did "The New Monkees" deserve better, or were they really just a ripoff act? SPONSORED BY Daves Archives Retrocirq And Our Patrons

Our look at shows with "New" in the title continues with a look at what happens when something flashes in the pan, and people try to keep the pan flashing for as long as the can. As we see if NKOTB had "The Right Stuff" to be cartoon characters... SPONORED BY: Dave's archives Retrocirq And our Patrons

We begin the New Year by taking a look at some shows that take Serious advantage of the word "New"...None more advantageous than an allegedly "New" sketch comedy show that looked a little TOO familiar to the few viewers who watched it... Our thanks to Andrew Dick ( That Week in SNL ), Darin Patterson ( SNL Nerds ) and Ian Fermaglitch ( Ian Talks Comedy ) for a quick yet complex cameo. SPONSORED BY...

Once again, we spend our Christmas looking at a song turned Holiday TV Special; except This year, we're looking at one of  The most Polarizing pieces of media that ever existed, and the TV Movie it inspired...Hold on to your shoes, Ladies & Gentledemons...We're going THERE . Thanks again to Darren Marlar of " Weird Darkness " for playing our Boss.  SPONSORED BY: Dave's archives Retrocirq And our P...

To call Norman Lear a "Legend" would be an Insult to Legends...This Commentary is NOT about the extensive amount of work he put in to his 101 years of life; but rather, what it was he was advocating for when making his shows.

It's time once again to dig up a corpse from the Summer TV Pilot Graveyard; this one--from 1991--takes a look at the story of Robert Goulet as a former famous person who managed to get into an elected office (Pfft, like THAT could happen today). SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq And Our Patrons

Author Justin Bergner (" Solving the Price is Right ") gets to COME ON DOWN; as he & I take a look at some of the most ill-concieved pricing games ever to grace the Bob Barker Studio. SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq And our Patrons

SEASON 6 PREMIERE: At Long last, Welcome to Season 6! You Know we gotta kick things off with a Big one; and for our premiere, we tell the tale of a show So legendary that one ABC Affiliate Pulled it Off The Air within its first 10 minutes ...What TV show could Possibly cause that much chaos? Thanks to Joan Bishop, Chad B. White, our announcer Mike Porter and INTRODUCING Darren Marlar of " Weird Da...