S08.E10: Illegitimate Theater

The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

No doubt lots of stuff happens in this episode. Maybe someone cops to murdering someone having just been fooled that they have an incurable rash. Maybe a new delicious drink involving yams is pitched, patented and sold within the runtime of this episode. Who's to say? Not Taylor, who forgot to write the copy for this episode, that's for sure.
NOTES

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🎵 Diane Warren is very much the Susan Lucci of “Best Original Song” Oscars. Fourteen nominations, no wins.

🥃 Chelsea Handler has written several memoirs, including Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea and My Horizontal Life.

🥜 We’re counting Misty Copeland as an actor because of her over the line billing in The Nutcracker And The Four Realms.

📈 MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) was a very short-lived NBC sitcom that starred Lauren Graham, and was cancelled as Gilmore Girls got picked up.

🚨 Turning on the News at the Exact Moment the Plot-Relevant Story Begins. Turning on the News at the Exact Moment the Plot-Relevant Story Begins— keeping exposition streamlined since 1926! [7/10: Wait, there’s one of these from 1926? And I haven’t seen it?]
👂 Do I Hear A Waltz? was based on the same play as the Katharine Hepburn film Summertime.

🦍 How could there not be a Vulture oral history of Stop The Planet Of The Apes, I Want To Get Off!

🌃 As devoted TGAPCQS fans know, Nightman is really Johnny Domino, jazz saxophonist extraordinaire.

🍔 Gene Belcher, voiced by Eugene Mirman, is the doctor who serves the Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He has the same name as the Bob’s Burgers character, but this has never been mentioned on the show, just by the creators elsewhere.

💋 The best thing about Kiss Me, Kate? It was originally filmed in 3D (which is why characters are always throwing stuff at the screen).

🏝️ On the musical episode of Gilligan’s Island, a producer played by Phil Silvers crash lands on the island, and Ginger is trying to impress him.

🏫 No one is quite sure what the musical from High School Musical is about, but Buzzfeed did try to piece it together.

🎮 The Nintendo GameCube score break. The Nintendo GameCube: Nintendo's hot new console in stores now! Due to scheduling conflicts, this message was delayed by 21 years. Our apologies. [2/10: Sega Saturn forever.]
🏆 Mike Nichols’ Closer was nominated for two Best Acting Awards, both supporting, for Clive Owen and Natalie Portman.

👩‍🦯 The blind saxophonist from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is named Ton Ton Tattoo. His job is to serve as Aunty Entity’s personal soundtrack.

🎷 The gag of “Sax Man,” the fifth track on The Lonely Island’s debut album, is that the titular sax man can’t actually play the sax at all.

🏛️ While it seems staid now, I, Claudius was controversial at the time. The New York Times wrote that it would “test the boundaries of public broadcasting.”

🐦 Chelsea is on Twitter

📷 Maxwell is on Instagram

🎧 And has a podcast, Musically Wright