S07.E07: Better Call Someone

The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

Rhyming words and mashed up names take center stage this week as Tim, Jeff, and Eleanor compete for the last spot in the Chronic Town Division finals! Round one looks at theoretical spinoff/prequels in the vein of "Better Call Saul," while round two explores possible collaborations between actors and musicians with complimentary names. All that, plus a lightning round to determine this week's champ!

NOTES

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🎎 Doll & Em is a lot of fun, and chronically unseen in the US.

🍁 The quarantine version of "Let’s Go to the Mall" is not quite up to the level of the original.

🐊 Crawl earned almost $100 million! It won a Fangoria award for Best Wide Release!

🤖 In Alien: Resurrection Winona Ryder’s character is mostly just called "Call" but Call calls herself "Annalee" as well.

🐿 The Chipmunk Hunk Scorebreak: Chipmunk Hunk, Chipmunk Hunk, he fights crime and other junk. Is he strong? Listen, punk, something something -unk.

🎶 Pretty much all the main cast of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl have their own theme song, all to the tune of the classic “Spider-Man” cartoon.

👎 Pitchfork did not like Steve Buscemi’s Rub Out the Word. And, from their description, it does sound terrible. To wit: “Steve Buscemi reads the cut-up passages of William Burroughs while backed by the drones of Elliott Sharp.”

🎙 If you’re trying to look up the Ricky Martin track, it’s “Vente Pa’ Ca.” It won Song of the Year at the Latin Grammys.

👩‍🍳 Bea Arthur’s role on The Star Wars Holiday Special raises a lot of questions.

💉 Tim was referencing Evangeline Lilly’s outspoken anti-vaccine views.

📚 The Jocaste Nu Scorebreak: Jocaste Nu...wait never mind. This scorebreak doesn't appear in the archives, so therefore it doesn't exist.

🤐 Not only did John Krasinski fire someone else to put Emily Blunt in A Quiet Place, he had her do the firing.

☄️ As Roger Ebert pointed out, Dodgeball never claims to be a “true” story, but a “true underdog” story.

📸 Tim does music and photography.

🐭 Tim also written about Disney World.

🐦 Jeffrey is on Twitter.

📷 Eleanor in on Instagram.