TV Makes Sense & Comedy Night Podcasted Right Matt Cail & Sam & Gus

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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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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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. 

The Gang Discusses the Best Episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.  Well, according to IMDb, anyways.  Anyone not familiar with the series may think the title is strange, but just remember that "Charlie" in the title is an adjective.

This week is Matt's pick, and along with Gus and Sam, we head over to Paddy's Pub where Charlie is forced to frantically dupe the new health inspector into thinking the bar is clean while everyone else is trying to pull off a chicken-steak-airline-miles scam.  

We spend a lot of time gushing over this episodes greatest technical feat, a 10-minute long tracking shot which follows Charlie and the health inspector all over Paddy's Pub - or "Carmine's: A Place for Steaks".  It's an episode so tightly made, it makes you wonder if anything was left on the editing room floor. The TV episode, that is.  Despite our insistence, there was plenty of audio from this recording that we had to cut out.

Some lessons learned this week include: Matt realized that "Survivor" is actually not all that bad and shouldn't have been so hard on it; Gus learns that "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum is different than "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush (and we're hoping that putting it in the description gets us a few extra listens); and Sam has tried pickled eggs, which honestly wasn't that great of a help in a trying time.

There's also some second-hand electrical advice that Matt learned from his father, who is also not a licensed electrician, HBO's Succession is a different show than Apple TV+'s Severance, and It's Always Sunny is weirdly connected to both the classic (?) Super Mario Bros. movie and the upcoming new version.

If enough people listen to this episode, we just may try to make Sam TikTok famous for eating pickled eggs.  Or we'll just console ourselves by eating steaks purchased with airline miles.

Either way, grab your favourite joke stool, have a seat, and enjoy the episode.

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Just don't pretend like you understand the plan, because that's going to annoy me.

TV Makes Sense returns, this time with Sam's first pick: Broad City, Season 4, Episode 4, "Mushrooms".  

Abbi and Ilana go on a psilocybin induced adventure, which starts out magical and fun and in animation - animation that in fact won an Emmy. But, a call from Abbi's boss Dara sends the ladies on a mission to drop off some macrons. Abbi finds herself trying to hide the fact that she's high and tripping hard in front of her boss while Ilana finds herself in her dream sexual situation.  You could say sitcom shenanigans ensue, but not sure if your typical sitcom includes sex toys and smushed cats.

Matt, Gus, and Sam use this episode of Broad City as a springboard into inappropriate stories of their own: times they've been too intoxicated in front of co-workers or just tripping too hard in general.  

Most of our episodes lately have been explicit, but we definitely crank the adult content factor up here.  And not just because Gus starts telling a story and realizing partway through that he's dropped about 6 F-bombs: the Canadians are just a bad influence on him.

So, mix up a big bowl of mushrooms and yogurt, sit back, and enjoy the trip!

Comedy Night Podcasted Right is taking a summer hiatus and we are proud to present to you our special summer spin-off: TV Makes Sense.

Every other week, Gus, Sam, or Matt will pick a great episode of television and the three will break it down.  The plot, the cast, the behind the scenes info, or even how the episode has affected their real lives.  Because life is messy and unstructured, but TV Makes Sense.

Gus got the first pick, and he chose an all-time classic from an amazing series: Arrested Development, Season 3, Episode 2, "For British Eyes Only".

You know this episode.  All the Bluths show off their chicken dances, even though none of them have ever actually seen a chicken before.  George ends up on house arrest and is ready to do anything to escape Lucille's libido.  GOB and Tobias team up for a "prostate-tickular", er, a "protest-tacular" called "Free Bird", or, er, "Free Chicken".  Tobias ends up getting "buy-curious" about wigs, and settles for getting 4,000 hair plugs.  After George claims he's really been set-up by the Brits, Michael takes a trip to a curious street in the OC called "Wee Britain", where he meets the lovely Rita, played by Academy Award winning guest star Charlize Theron.  But there's more to Rita than meets the eye; and Michael needs her eyes to check the paperwork to see if George is lying, since it's "For British Eyes Only".

So, grab a whole thing of candy beans, and listen to the gang talk about how you need to cut toxic people out of your life: the kind of people that don't watch Arrested Development.  Especially if you're going to quote Tobias in public, because people will think you are confessing some deep truths.  

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