Ribs

Maybe I'm horribly selfish, but I was desperately awaiting the revelation of who had prepared the wedding cake.

I'm pretty disappointed to hear there'll be a 700 Sundays sketch on the TV show with no mention of Gelman's classic bit in Episode 6. Still one of my most favorite characters/appearances ever.

Oh my goodness, I'm so happy that Scott brought up the Atom when they talked about traveling through the phone. It was the first thing that came to mind for me and I completely forgot that Choctaw is always capable of an obscure comics reference.

Look down, tally-ho, what's love got to do with it? Twenty dollars!

I don't think that the text of the opening message would make a very good catchphrase.

Today's show is brought to you by your family. Please come home, Mike.

Or, y'know, they could just do what they did last year again, dropping some of the less succesful characters in favor of some of the characters that have yet to be given a shot.

Today's episode is sponsored by the carnival, which is in town.

I love it because it implies Alan Thicke to be a malfunctioning robot.

I have no idea if the budget can stretch far enough (they've done the infrequent animated bit, though) but I can easily see Wompler done in a style similar to a Penny Cartoon on Pee-Wee's Playhouse.

It was renewed before Season 3 even premiered. Scott mentioned on (I think) the Nathan Fielder episode that Thursdays resulted in a notable drop in the ratings, which explains why it's back to Fridays. It's the first show listed on IFC's website, so they really are giving it the good ol' college try to get more people to watch it, and the big renewal certainly shows they had planned the show to be a proper weekly show similar to Last Week Tonight or any other chat show. Hopefully it can regain whatever traction it has lost. I don't think everything is so doom-and-gloom, though, or IFC very well could have cut the order at what I'm pretty sure would be a comparably low cost.

I did enjoy Scott's mangled timeline of the history of Andy Daly/Zouks eps.

I know they really shouldn't *encourage* bootlegging, but surely Scott could put a plea at one of the ad breaks of a proper episode for anybody who may have attended + recorded the lost show?

I'm kind of disappointed to learn that in the anniversary show Scott was given carte blance as to PFT's character, and he didn't explore the very humorous possibility that the Ghost of Richard Harrow knocks and sits down for once rather than spooking his way inside.

I feel the need to share this - so I started listening to this podcast about a month ago, and when I decided to buy some backlog, the three first names I looked up were Kroll, Mantzoukas, and Scheer only to be kind of baffled none of them had been on. Suffice it to say the past four weeks have made me pretty happy on Thursday mornings. Presumably next week will follow with President Obama or someone similarly impressive to top all of these.

Do you have any copies of Repo Man?

Can there be special episodes of this podcast without the regular host, dubbed "Hooray Show, Sans"?

Cakeverse

I really appreciate PFT still regularly bringing in the new characters. That's the fourth this year (JW, Len Wiseman, Rev. Parsimony being the others). I'm still desperately hoping that they'll do a every-PFT-character-at-Garry-and-Gilly's-wedding episode in two months. These extra characters both make it increasingly unlikely and increasingly tantalizing. A little bit sad that there's still been no Herzog or Mr. Ghost in a while, but I suppose everything can't be totally perfect all the time.

The answer to all of these would be Dabney in some way, shape, or form.

I see there's now two more open slots on the "shows" tab - given we know Womp it Up! is coming (eventually), is there any indication what the third new podcast might be?

Maybe it's just me, but for me, the TV show is way way way more important than the podcast. The podcast gets bigger laughs, but less of them; whole episodes go by where I just don't feel a character and I'm stuck with them for forty-five minutes. But simply by nature of their having to build a persona in that amount of time means they, eventually, will get a big laugh at some point. Usually. It's just probability. The TV show is legitimately and consistently brilliant. It is never mean-spirited, and always fresh. No bit goes on too long. It does not skewer the late-night talk show so much as enhance it, not deconstructing the genre but redecorating it and shifting the goalposts (to use about four metaphors in one). It is a mission statement that "this is Comedy" and it has never even hinted at deviation from that. The biggest problem the show has is that the first season was incapable of performing as much creativity; in a way, it makes sense, but it is utterly odd to see the first ten episodes go by where there isn't some frame parody/sketch to drive the rest episode, and everything is played straight like a regular talk show. They still do this occasionally (Patton Oswalt's premiere episode this year did this, as did the past week's if my memory isn't collapsing upon itself), but nine times out of ten it sets out to take one (to my infinite amusement, increasingly obscure) topic and find some new angle to inject comedy into it. The TV show lives up to the title; the comedy just oozes and shoots out, full of thought and message. "This is comedy," it says, "Bang! Bang!" tldr The running gag of a rivalry with Maron never ever gets old, and the joke where Scott goes to the dry cleaner and his clothes are soaking wet is the best ever written

Here's what I voted for, and what most sticks in my mind from each: 263 - Hollywild: "Hey, Oprah would be a good answer to any of these! What was the last one, What does a Chimpanzee- oh, no!" 265 - Live from RIOT LA: Alligator doing a double take. 272 - Sex Party Season: Technicality No-Down Boo Over 274 - Oh Golly: Scott and Jason cracking up when it is revealed that Don DiMello is Satan's high commander 280 - DuALity: Bill Murray's appearance 283 - The 5th Anniversary Show: JW Stillwater's short conversation with Mike the Janitor 286 - Time Bobby 3: The whole last ten minutes, especially the technicality no down boo-over (been a while since we've had one of those, huh?) 289 - The Exorcism of Cake Boss: The Bazooka Joe comic 300 - Oh, Golly! You Devil: Scott bringing Golly back just so he can drop the title one more time & Also the triumphant return of My Wife 313 - Gumbo Challenge: Aaron Neville's SNL Monologue

It's not delivery; it's HBO.

Maybe bringing Coco Marx back into the equation should give Scott all the proof he needs of Riddle Me This' value? It's been a while...