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We're a little late to the 100th birthday celebration of Leslie Nielsen.  Surely, you'll forgive us.  (And don't call us Shirley.) After the success of Airplane!, its producers brought a show with similar humor to the small screen with Police Squad!  The show was not a success for several reasons, but it was loved so much that it spun off into four movies over the last 40 years.

In the next chapter, Greg and Dane continue their look at 2010 TNA, which is a review of TNA Against All Odds 2010. We have an 8-Card Stud Tournament to determine the #1 contender for the TNA World Title; meanwhile, AJ Styles faces Samoa Joe for the TNA championship with Eric Bischoff as the Special Guest Ref. Special Thanks to Tim Taylor at Place to be Nation for creating the new logo for the pod...

It's a midweek edition of It Was a Thing on TV Presents. First, Greg and Mike go over Super Bowl LX and talk about the Winter Olympics among various sports topics. Then, Greg invites Dane in Segment 2 to talk about the Wrestling Observer awards and oh boy, they got a lot to say about it.

Our tribute for Joe Garagiola's birthday takes us back almost 4 decades, to a show that has been forgotten, for good reason.  Kline and Friends' second endeavor was not good, though we know one way a current generation could have gotten into it:  #nobanditnobandit.  (We have had a little too much fun with that lately.)

With the Winter Olympics happening right now in Italy, we present our first-ever "Best of" involving a Live Show as we re-release Greg and Chico's live watch from the Stream Lounge era involving the 1993 Disney movie "Cool Runnings" recorded during the last Winter Olympics in 2022.

When we placed this on the schedule, it was to coincide with a 24/7 stream of the show.  A few days before we recorded, the stream ended.  To make matters worse, due to technical difficulties, the original Revisited show had to be scrapped.  Finally, it became a reality.  Relive the fun of Duke Moosekian, The Handsome Boy Modeling Agency, SPEWEY, and much more as we finally revisit Get a Life prop...

The Squared Circle Time Machine heads to the Manhattan Center as Monday Night RAW returns to the building where it all started as Jerry "The King" Lawler has issued a challenge to Paul E. and ECW to show up in this memorable episode of RAW.

Ever wanted to know the secret talents of NFL players? No? Well, NBC Sports thought otherwise and gave us this competition during the pregame of Super Bowl XXIII, which features four guys and Reggie White showing off their hidden talents to win money for charity with an all-star panel of judges, along with Ahmad Rashad and the star of the box-office hit of 1989, "Who's Harry Crumb?" John Candy? Wh...

In honor of this event's 40th anniversary this week, we look at a special episode of World Championship Wrestling on Superstation WTBS at The Omni in Atlanta. We have a loaded show with four competitive matches, including the Rock 'n' Roll Express facing the Midnight Express for the NWA World Tag Team titles and Ric Flair putting the NWA World Title on the line against Ronnie Garvin. Also, we get...

This Sunday, the 60th installment of "The Big Game" is occurring.  We have pulled up some gridiron gems to commemmorate this event.  First, in 1970, football became more popular due to the AFL/NFL merger that year, the start of Monday Night Football, and the booming popularity of "The Big Game."  Earlier that year saw Where's Huddles?  (See episode 451.)  Later, Bob Stewart of Password and Pyramid...

As you all know, we were supposed to bring you the Revisited episode of Get a Life today, but as Mike mentioned earlier this week, technical issues in the recording forced us to scrap it and redo it two weeks from now. However, since we have no episode this week, we are releasing our original episode of "Get a Life" from 2022 as a "Best of" for you this week. So enjoy Greg saying "Duke Moosekian".

We recorded episode 606 over the weekend.  There was one problem--Mike's computer was acting up, disconnecting from the web after a few minutes.  Since we utilize the web quite a bit in our preparation and recordings, this was a huge issue.  Mike went to his Surface as a back-up.  The results were horrible, with the audio skipping every few seconds.  Hence, we decided it was best to shelve this ep...

It's the finale of the Masked Man arc storyline on the SCTM as Greg and Dane look at the 30th Clash of the Champions from Caesars Palace in Vegas as the Hulkster and the Macho Man take on The Butcher and Kevin Sullivan in a tag team main event. If Vader doesn't ruin the main event and break his retraining order while paying $350 for ringside seats.

Part of the conversation in Episode 605 was about the once-prevalent fish and chicken franchise Arthur Treacher's, which only has 4 locations as of the time of recording.  Mike is about 10 miles away from their newest location.  He took the trip to try their offerings, to see how they stack up from what Mike remembers from his youth.  Was it a good value?  Would Mike go back?  Dive on in to this I...

It has taken us over 6 years and over 600 episodes to finally cover one of the biggest turkeys in television history.  You would think anything a person nicknamed "The Great One" touches would, by default, be amazing.  This show is proof that is not true.  Jackie Gleason hosted one full episode of this, then gave the TV audience a grand apology the following week because what worked in runthroughs...

It's the first TNA PPV of the Hogan/Bischoff era, brother! We had six sides, and it only got us so far jack! We got some debuts on this PPV while AJ and Kurt have their rematch from the January 4th Impact from the last episode for the TNA World Title. And whose side is the Nature Boy on?

Continuing with the magic theme from the last installment, our birthday boy Chico has selected this show as his annual Money in the Bank.  Instead of Bill Bixby as a master magician/crime solver, it is Hal Linden.  The results were similar--one season and done, but this has a place in our hearts.

As we near a new era with TNA Impact about to debut on AMC, we go back 16 years to when TNA launched a new era to start the 2010's on the January 4th, 2010 episode of Impact on Spike TV. We have the debut's of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff running the Impact Zone, Brother! Along with some great suprisements that Dixie Carter has in store for us. Also, why is the security for TNA so bad we ask throu...

On the newest edition of Before the Show, Mike and Greg look at the controversy with the first week of the new CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil and how we aren't saluting it or him. They also look at some of the recent purchases they made on eBay and the ineptness of David Stearns running the New York Mets. Then Chico joins in during Segment 2 as they talk about Miami's win in the Fiesta Bowl a...

To start 2026, we look at a show which many consider one of the best one-season wonders in television history.  What happens when you get a playboy who lives in a plane and drives a white Corvette, performs magic, and solves crimes?  You get The Magician, an enjoyable series from 1973-4.

With the bowl season going on in College Football, Greg and Dane look at this one-time event from the New Year's Day 1996 episode of Monday Night RAW featuring a Fatal Four-Way Tag Team match down with football-style rules known as the RAW Bowl. The winning team in this match is gonna receive the Lombardi trophy, but it's not what you think it is! Also, we see a preview of the upcoming Royal Rumbl...

Congratulations!  We have successfully completed another orbit around the sun!  As we have done for the last 5 years, we have summarized the year in television, this time in one part and in under 2 hours, spanning from Netflix buying everything to the disasterous year with CBS/Paramount.  Thanks as always for listening in 2025.  We have many more goodies in store for 2026!

Happy holidays!  Our gift to you this holiday season is a television movie from 1977, which was a carbon copy of the Christmastime favorite It's a Wonderful Life, but gender-swapped.  Included in the cast is one of our favorite names, as well as the person Warren Beatty said is the best in Hollywood at something.

Greg and Dane head to the next-to-last chapter of The Masked Man arc on the SCTM as Hulk Hogan takes on his former best friend in the whole world Brutus "The Butcher/Barber/Booty Man/Disciple/Man With No Name or Face" Beefcake for the WCW Championship. We also have Macho Man Randy Savage making his WCW PPV Debut as he will either shake the Hulkster's hand or slap him in the face! Plus, we get a vi...

A Longhorn Network tradition becomes an It Was a Thing on TV holiday tradition as we watch the University of Texas' live mascot, Bevo, in his natural habitat to muzak of songs from the holiday season. We also share some fun facts about Bevo and the University of Texas while watching Bevo. You can follow along with us at the following link from the Longhorn Network website. - https://watch.longhorn...