Saturday Night Live | Ep #64

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<applause> Thank you, thank you! It's an honor to be here on this stage. <applause> We've got a great show for you tonight. Musical guest Jeff Wilson is here. <applause> Stick around and we'll be right back!    

 

Show Notes: 

05:01 The history of SNL ("more troughs than peaks")
08:25 The casts
25:15 Interlude: "Lazy Sunday"

26:10 Digital shorts
26:50 "Jane, you ignorant slut"
28:30 The writers
33:01 "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy"
35:50 30 Rock
37:05 SNL Movies
45:55 David Spade cracks up
48:35 Interlude: "King Tut"
49:20 "Chopping Broccoli"
50:55 Consumer Probe Christmas
52:30 Bass-O-Matic 76
54:11 The Judy Miller Show
54:55 A Service for the Hearing Impaired
56:27 Synchronized Swimmers
57:15 The Census Taker
59:30 SNL Commercials


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Saturday Night Live | Ep #64

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Ep #37

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They're the world's most fearsome fighting team. They're heroes in a half-shell and they're green. They're the reason Drew draws and John hangs out in the sewers. They're the TMNT, and we're talking about them.  

Show Notes: 

01:15 Jumping headlong into the ooze
03:55 Nineteen eighty-fourigins
04:40 "Stick"
06:01 The animated series
08:40 "Did you say clang?"
09:20 Turtle mania (bedsheets / lunchbox / Hostess pies / ice cream bars)
13:10 Interlude: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pies commercial 
15:50 "I love toxic waste"
16:09 Sewer playset / Pizza Thrower
16:48 Casey Jones
17:30 Bebop and Rocksteady
18:32 The Technodrome
22:10 Turtle Van / Turtle Blimp
24:35 Side characters
26:40 Shredder
27:00 Interlude: Partners in Kryme: "Turtle Power"
30:06 "I don't believe it." - TMNT: The Movie
36:35 TMNT 2: The Secret of the Ooze
37:51 TMNT 3: Turtles in Time
41:10 New toons (2003 series / 2007 movie)
43:10 2012 animated series
44:20 Interlude: Vanilla Ice: "Ninja Rap"
45:15 Turtle tunes
48:25 "Make it ice"
49:30 Turtle preferences
51:57 Cashing in on kids
53:30 FCC deregulation 

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Ep #37

The Wire | Ep #11

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The Wire may not be a show for everyone, but this episode of The Hourchive is. The first half of this two-hourchive epic is a Wire primer for those who've never seen the show; the second is a season-by-season discussion of exactly why it's the best show ever. Hint: all the pieces matter. 

Show Notes:  

02:25 Drop the bagel; watch The Wire 
03:45 Snot Boogie
11:20 A staggering amount of characters  
18:35 Interlude: The Missing Package
22:15 Bodymore, Murdaland

34:25 Interlude: Juking the Stats

37:50 Good cop/bad cop Jimmy McNulty

41:00 Interlude: The Wire Season One Opening Theme

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42:15  Season One

48:50 Interlude: "The king stays the king."

1:03:19 Season Two

1:17:55 Interlude: "We used to make shit in this country."

1:20:40 Season Three

1:22:49 Interlude: "Dream with me."

1:36:16 Season Four

1:45:30 Season Five

1:51:50 Interlude: "Pawns"

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The Wire | Ep #11