About TV Makes Sense & Comedy Night Podcasted Right
Two podcasts in one stream! "Comedy Night Podcasted Right" is a week-by-week deep dive into the year that Community, Parks & Recreation, The Office, and 30 Rock aired as a two hour block on NBC, and what sort of weird coincidences show up when you binge four different shows at once. "TV Makes Sense" looks at some of the best individual episodes of television and how they make sense in a way that real life just cannot compare to. Hosted by Matt, Gus, and Sam.
TV Makes Sense - Episode 06 - The Simpsons - Lisa the Vegetarian
You don't make friends with salad, but you can if you incessantly quote "The Simpsons". Well, at least the only kinds of friends worth keeping.
Matt, Gus, and Sam are back and talking another great episode of one of TV's best shows ever. How does one pick an episode when there's over 700 to choose from? Well, ignore anything from the last 20 years and pick an early episode: in our case, "Lisa the Vegetarian".
While it may be an odd choice since it's rarely considered to be among the series' top episodes, but it certainly was one of the most influential. Considering The Simpsons has to constantly shift its own backstory to keep the characters ages' in line with modern times, Lisa still remains a vegetarian almost thirty years later. But not only that, this episode is packed with quotable lines and sight gags, as well as classic bits like an Itchy and Scratchy and a Troy McClure educational video.
We take the opportunity to discuss our own flings with vegetarianism; with Sam herself being inspired to give up meat for several years after watching this episode. Gus also talks about eating lentil soups when he gave it a try, and if you feel like trying Paul McCartney's ripping lentil soup, we've done the work to reverse the audio from "Maybe I'm Amazed" so you can hear it for yourself. Matt also gets the chance to deep dive into way to much knowledge on the earlier seasons of the Simpsons: the kind of skill only useful when making podcasts.
So settle in: grab a plate of tripe, a bowl of gazpacho, and make sure to remember to BYOBB. Even if we have a brief technical issue with Gus' mic towards the end, it's still good, it's still good!
Note: this episode is fun for ages 1 to 7 1/2.
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18 Aug 2022
TV Makes Sense - Episode 05 - Freaks and Geeks - Pilot
The once-were-Geeks-in-High-School-but-now-proudly-identify-as-Freaks are back with another episode breakdown: this time of the seminal (hey, we used that word right!) series Freaks and Geeks. We went right to the start with the first episode, creatively titled "Pilot".
What were you in school? A nerdy geek? A burnout freak? A bully jock? A... Hufflepuff? Well, regardless that the title breaks kids down into only clique, what we really learn in the Pilot and through this series is that we're more than the labels we're given. In fact, it's somewhat ironic that this show can make us nostalgic for what was most definitely NOT the greatest years of our lives.
Not only do we love this show for the complexity of these characters; but the show was a veritable well spring for talent. Oddly enough, we've seen that most of these people somehow ended up in a Spider-man movie, since all roads lead to Spider-man.
Some other strange connections we've learned or only just remembered was that Linda Cardellini was in Legally Blonde getting her hair permed, and it's possibly that Tina Fey stole the entire idea for Mean Girls from Freaks and Geeks.
Just make sure you listen for any more hot takes!
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21 Jul 2022
TV Makes Sense - Episode 04 - Scrubs - My Old Lady
Matt, Sam, and Gus are back with a heart-wrenching and hilarious episode of Scrubs - Season 1, Episode 4, My Old Lady. Get ready to feel all your feelings and a touch of emotional damage.
This was Matt's first experience with Scrubs in probably 20 years, so if you're also unfamiliar with the show, Sam and Gus deliver a great breakdown of the series as a whole before we get into this episode. Sam delivers her TED talk on how the show actually ended after 8 seasons and the 9th season doesn't exist. Gus answers all our questions on hospital administration and inter-departmental politics.
Don't worry; there's also plenty of our regular hijinks - Matt pulls deep cuts on the cult classic teen sex comedy "EuroTrip", Sam pulls deep cuts on classic board game commercials, and Gus pulls deep cuts on the Rob Schneider vehicle "The Animal" and we all can't pretend that we didn't see it when it came out.
Let's not give too much else away, but just hit play knowing that Death, like this episode, can be pretty sneaky. You may not get hit by a literal ton of bricks, but you'll certainly get hit with a metaphorical one. It's okay if you need to ask an old lady for a hug afterwards.
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