S09.E01: Isosceles Romance

The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

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[I'm sure he'll do it]
[This is the season that he definitely won't forget!]
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[Chik-chikk. Chikkaaaaa.]
[That was like the final fade out in the post credits sequence in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I hope you enjoyed it]
NOTES

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🧥 There’s some controversy about Lt. Columbo’s first name, so “Eleanor” isn’t entirely out of the running.

9️⃣ “Nine” is “nove” in Italian.

💥 “Bang a Gong” was only part of the T. Rex song in the US; in the original UK release, there was no subtitle.

🚗 The TV version of Waylon Jenning’s theme for The Dukes of Hazzard isn’t quite the same as the released version: it doesn’t have the “Yee-Haws” at the end. Even though there are two voices, it’s just John Schneider’s voice twice.

🪑 The Focus Master scorebreak: The Focus Master, the office chair that makes people work better by being very uncomfortable and eventually driving the worker mad. I thought these were supposed to be fictional – that’s the chairs we used to have in my department. [6/10: the banality of evil]
🤯 A “bi-angle” is a thing, so we don’t want to hear it.

🤠 Etta Place is a real person

⚖️ The actual “old” Perry Mason would be the CBS radio show, which started in 1943, was slightly retooled in a move to TV in 1956, and continued, under the title Edge of Night until 1984.

🇩🇰 Splitting up Together was a short-lived 2018 ABC sitcom with Jenna Fischer, based on a Danish show.

🦫 The probably not Macaroni and Cheese scorebreak: Probably not Macaroni and Cheese never gets hot AND causes blindness. Still better than Kraft dinner. [5/10 shots fired on Canada]
🐒 The fight with a feral space baboon in Ad Astra was a bit of a departure for the otherwise slow, thoughtful movie about daddy issues.

🥳 Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon aired just three episodes on Spike TV.

🎸 Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah sounds like a person, but it was a trio composed of Mitch Aliotta, Skip Haynes and John Jeremiah. Before Jeremiah joined, it was just “Aliotta Haynes.”

🏢 According to Season 1, Episode 4 of Only Murders in the Building, Brazzos ran for nine seasons on PBS.

👨🏻‍🎤 Kyle sings with the Metropolitan Chorale

🦣 She is also on Mastodon (that’s a first for us!)

📸 And on Instagram