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It's not The Odd Couple, but the minds behind Married...with Children created this pilot which had an odd couple--an outgoing door-to-door saleswoman and a top-tier international model who has everything but a friend.  Was this the beginning of a beautiful friendship?  It didn't get past pilot stage, so it's fair to say no.

Greg and Dane head to St. Louis for TNA Lockdown 2010 as Team Hogan takes on Team Flair in Lethal Lockdown. We also have the TNA World Title on the line between AJ Styles and the Pope while Kurt Angle and Mr. Anderson have the epic conclusion to their feud. Also, we talk about the Icelandic Volcano wreaking havoc on the card and a 20-inning game between the Mets and Cardinals.

The time has finally come to answer a question this podcast has posed for some time--What's a Snavely?  First, it's the first attempt to bring Fawlty Towers to this side of the Atlantic.  Second, it's a hotel.  Third, it's the surname of the owners.  Fourth, it's the seventh installment for Pilot Month 2026 and the 623rd episode of this podcast.

Greg and Dane continue their look into 2010 TNA with this episode of Impact during the middle of the Monday Night War with WWE. We got Team Hogan and Team Flair budding heads before the upcoming Lockdown PPV, Kurt Angle and Mr. Anderson battling for a key in a Ladder Match and the Knockouts Lockbox Challenge where one of the Knockouts has to do a striptease. OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

It's 1993.  Video games are the newest form of entertainment.  The landscape already has cartoons of Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and the Mega Man cartoon will bow in the following year.  What other video game characters have the popularity to drive a cartoon?  Bubsy?!  A pilot aired around Thanksgiving 1993.  What could possibly go wrong?  What COULDN'T go wrong?

Greg and Dane return to Georgia Championship Wrestling on this edition of the SCTM as they watch an Omni House Show from August of 1983 via the WWE Vault channel on YouTube. We get to see the beginnings of Arn Anderson and Rick Rude in the lower-card, while we get a U.S. title match between Greg Valentine and Pistol Pez Whatley. It's all capped off with a dynamite main event chain match between Ro...

We venture into the absurd with this pilot, where one character gets his abilities due to solar radiation, while his partner is half motorcycle and half human.  This project had two future stars, as well as a third coming off his big movie a year earlier.  (Coming.  IYKYK.)  ABC passed on it, and apparently FOX had to decide between this and a classic FOX sitcom as a 1999-2000 midseason replacemen...

What's up next for Pilot Month 2026?  It.  What is It?  It is simply the linking word in a Before and After like you would see on Wheel of Fortune.  It had an amazing set, but It was also a mess, with many technical issues and goofs.  It was a work in progress.  And what's the deal with the gruesome animated character which was clearly a blatant ripoff of the Whammy?  All this use of the word 'it'...

In honor of "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" being released in theaters, along with "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" coming to MeTV Toons, we decided to release this "Best of" from 2021, covering The SMB Super Show! in honor of MAR10 Day. Just be sure to keep Hot Rod's bagpipes away from Mario and Luigi.

We usually don't include pilots of series which make it to television, but apparently someone made an exception.  Two pilots of the beloved series from the early 70s through the early 80s were done with the question format from the original series.  (The humorous questions would arrive about a year later.)  The first pilot can easily be found.  A word of warning about the second pilot:  There is a...

It's time for the annual tradition at It Was a Thing on TV as we watch a game from Week 1 of the new UFL season. Greg and Mike in this episode go over some of the changes in the UFL with the new coaches, players and teams. We also go over why does the UFL have a betting expert on these games?

In a segment so epic, we had to shine a spotlight on it's very own episode, Greg and Dane conclude their look at WCW Uncensored 1996 with the Doomsday Cage Match! It's the Mega Powers against the Alliance to end Hulkamania! Can the Four Horsemen and the Dungeon of Doom rid the world of Hulkamania once and for all? Of course not, but that doesn't mean they're gonna try in one of the most confusing...

Pilot Month 2026 rolls on with this Jim Henson entry, which aired during the 1987 installment of CBS Summer Playhouse.  Like at least one other pilot we have previously covered, this pilot dealt with the happenings at a children's TV show, as well as the personal lives off-camera.  Like at least that one other pilot, it became a footnote in TV history.

Last year on the SCTM, Greg and Dane covered WCW Uncensored 1995; now, a year later, they watch the 1996 edition. This year, we get Konnan and Eddie in a banger opener, Regal and Finlay brawling, The Giant going up against ..... The Lochness Monster? Plus, we also have BOOTYBOOTYBOOTYBOOTYMAN! Part 2, covering the Doomsday Cage Match between The Mega Powers and The Alliance to end Hulkamania, will...

It's the beginning of an annual tradition on this podcast--Pilot Month.  We are giving you 12 pilots over the next 6 weeks.  We begin Pilot Month 2026 with yet another spinoff of M*A*S*H, but this one didn't make it.  Was it due to going to the well once too often, or was it possibly due to a good percentage of the country not seeing it due to political convention coverage?  Maybe it's because the...

In the second of our two birthday honorings this week, we celebrate what would have been Kevin Dobson's 83rd Birthday by looking at this short-lived 1981 CBS cop show. Kevin Dobson plays a widowed single father who moves from the NYPD to San Francisco. The ratings for this wouldn't be good, but better things would come for Kevin in the following year thanks to a cast opening on another CBS drama.

Greg and Dane take a trip to Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling on the SCTM. They look at the April 30th, 1994 episode of SMW as they took a look at some of the various wrestlers in the territory including a young Chris Jericho and Lance Storm as The Thrillseekers! They also look at the big monster heel in SMW known as Brusier Bedlam who's taking on Randy Savage at an upcoming show. Plus, we...

In the next week, the legendary William Shatner turns 95 years old.  Our tribute to him is this entry from almost 20 years ago, which has Deal or No Deal tendencies but asks questions slightly more difficult than that show's title query.  It remains a classic among us, though the general population didn't agree.  We also get closure to what happened to the contestant on the final aired episode who...

Here is yet another case of a spinoff of a hit show being an utter disaster.  Joey Tribbiani moved to L.A., away from his friends.  Nobody told him spinning off from the flagship show was gonna be this way.  After two lackluster seasons, this series ended up as one of the biggest spinoff flops in history.

In the newest episode of the SCTM, we continue with our look at 2010 TNA with Destination X 2010. In this PPV we get a great four-way ladder match, a Destination X match between The Motor City Machine Guns and the (not) Young Bucks, and the funniest ending of a Main Event of all-time according to Greg and Dane! Feel the power of the Hulkster's HOF Ring, Brother!

Mike's birthday happened earlier in the week.  As is tradition around these parts, during birthday time, each host picks an episode they want to cover as their Money in the Bank.  Mike chose this cartoon which was critical of the times in the 70s during season 1, but reverted to an animated sitcom with no controversial bite in subsequent seasons.

It's for reals this time as TNA Impact goes head-to-head against WWE RAW on Monday Night's in 2010 headlined by a tag team main event between The Hulkster and Abyss against Ric Flair and AJ Styles! We also got two championship matches on this special Impact, a big debut, and WHAT DID SCOTT HALL SAY OUT LOUD?!?!

They’re beautiful. They’re talented. They’re poised. They’re competing on a grand stage for $10,000 and the title of Miss… Dog. FOX arrives with another idea where one didn’t exist, only for it to be neutered after one go.

Greg and Dane return to the WWE Vault channel for this episode of the SCTM as they review the 1994 Coliseum Video "Wham Bam Bodyslam!" We get some goodies from the New Generation Era in the WWF, including a Bret vs. Owen lumberjack match where we get chaos! We also have a banger between Alundra Blayze and Bull Nakano for the WWF Women's Championship, along with Doink and Dink clowning around at Ti...

Usually, we don't cover shows that ran for more than two seasons.  An exception was made not because this was bad but rather the plethora of changes which arose, primarily with talent wanting raises.  Despite that, What's Happening Now!! actually had a longer run than the original series.