Tim Goodman's TV Talk Machine
By Tim Goodman and Jason Snell
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Subscribers: 82
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 255
Apr 4, 2020
Apr 21, 2019
Description
Writer Tim Goodman (former SF Chronicle and Hollywood Reporter TV critic) talks irregularly with Jason Snell about television and other stuff. Released simultaneously worldwide to all international markets. Love to your mothers.
TV Talk Machine art by the late, great Don Asmussen.
| Episode | Date |
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255: The Two-Episode Test
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May 02, 2023 |
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254: The Spoon and the Tunnel
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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253: If Tim Falls in the Forest...
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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252: The PBS Ping-Pong
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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251: Tim's Back! On Substack!
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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250: Nature is Healing
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May 23, 2020 |
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249: We Don't Rehearse This
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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248: Skunks Are Terrible Beings
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Apr 04, 2020 |
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247: I Love Being Confused
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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246: Genius Grant
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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245: Yoga Five Times a Week
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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244: You Did an Inception on Me
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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243: The Best TV Shows of 2019, More or Less
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Dec 07, 2019 |
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242: "Hello, I'm Hobo Eric."
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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241: I Don't Work There Anymore
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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240: I'm Not Into Vengeance
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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239: They Did This Without Our Blessing
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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238: Cash From the Same Wallet
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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237: TV Critics Watch the 'Watchmen'
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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236: On the Plus Side
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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235: Love to Your Daughters
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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234: Imagine the Savings
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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233: Kenny Baseball Is Back
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Sep 14, 2019 |
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232: The Robots Are Wavering
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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231: David Fincher's Cousin
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Aug 31, 2019 |
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230: Ok, India, You Do You
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Aug 24, 2019 |
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229: What the Hell Is TBS?
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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228: That Made Me Question Everything
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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227: Premium Female
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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226: Tedious's Monster's Tedious Monster
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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225: A Garbage Fire in Their Own Backyard
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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224: You Jump on a Slow Tractor
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Jul 06, 2019 |
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223: I Don't Like Playing This Game With You
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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222: Feel-Good Hit of the Summer
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Jun 22, 2019 |
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221: It's Hard Out There
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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220: ...Then Maybe It's Brilliant
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Jun 08, 2019 |
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219: The Apocalypse Edition
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May 30, 2019 |
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218: Another Egg for Our Basket
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May 23, 2019 |
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217: A Fresher TVTM
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May 16, 2019 |
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216: Hit the Cord With the Scissors
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May 09, 2019 |
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215: I've Made a Huge Mistake
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May 03, 2019 |
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214: I Want to See That Nipple
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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213: Mallets and Anvils
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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212: Reight Champion
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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211: Nobody Gets a Ribbon
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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210: Not All of the Clarity
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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209: The Premise Has Landed
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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208: You're This Little Speck
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Mar 02, 2019 |
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207: That's Not How Television Works
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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206: The Adaptive Brain
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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205: It's Pronounced "Pen Fifteen"
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Feb 09, 2019 |
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204: The Swagger of Netflix
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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203: The Quantum Indeterminancy Edition
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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202: The Dinosaur Ship is Sinking
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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201: The Retro Podcast Edition
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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200: New Year, New Me
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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199: I'm Over These Lists
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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198: The Best TV Shows of 2018
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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197: Do Not Be That
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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196: They're Already Drowning
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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195: Time is Precious
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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194: #SadSpies
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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193: Clocks Into the Grinder
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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192: The Last Hour Is 75 Minutes
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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191: The Beachcombers
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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190: Bears and No Tent
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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189: Heroin Made of Nostalgia
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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188: Still Young, Still a Legend
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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187: Slow Binge, Quick Binge
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Sep 07, 2018 |
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186: I Appreciates You
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Aug 31, 2018 |
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185: The Great Unwatched
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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184: Clowns Are Running the Show
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Aug 11, 2018 |
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183: Maybe You Won't Hate Me
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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182: It's Just You
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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181: They're Not Voting With Their Conscience
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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180: That's Tip Money
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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179: The Helicopter Is a Character
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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178: Titan of Industry
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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177: So Smart in Its Dumbness
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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176: BAJIP
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May 26, 2018 |
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175: Joyful Salve
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May 11, 2018 |
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174: Sophomore Year
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Apr 28, 2018 |
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173: Reviled for Its Flaws
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Apr 21, 2018 |
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172: Let's Unleash Them
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Apr 14, 2018 |
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171: What Is Even Happening Here?
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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170: That Was for an Experiment
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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169: Did I Just Columbo You?
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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168: You're Not a TV Fish
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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167: A Picture of Pete
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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166: Through the Warmhole
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Mar 03, 2018 |
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165: Whole-Face Burn-Off
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Feb 24, 2018 |
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164: Old-School Grandma Network
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Feb 09, 2018 |
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163: They're Like Floppy Disks
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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162: Don't Bring a BB Gun
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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161: Intelligent Fish
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Jan 20, 2018 |
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160: The End of the Foxing World
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Jan 12, 2018 |
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159: It's Not Even a Show
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Jan 06, 2018 |
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158: You Got Me More Television!
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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157: The Best TV Shows of 2017
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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156: Everything Smells Like an Onion
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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155: Parts Unnain
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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154: Package Deal
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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153: Gradations of Bad
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Nov 11, 2017 |
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152: We've Columboed Ourselves
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Nov 03, 2017 |
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151: It Has Its Own Taint
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Oct 20, 2017 |
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150: Back Up the Truck
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Oct 12, 2017 |
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149: Live From the Vancouver International Film Festival
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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148: Are There More Letters?
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Sep 22, 2017 |
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147: Kicking Their App
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Sep 16, 2017 |
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146: It's Like Cilantro
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Sep 08, 2017 |
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145: Weird Is Not Enough
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Sep 02, 2017 |
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144: Summer Wedge
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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143: Shot in the Face With Money
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Aug 11, 2017 |
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142: They've Turned the Dinosaur Ship
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Aug 05, 2017 |
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141: I Don't Want to Hug It Out
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Jul 29, 2017 |
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140: We've Heard This Rant Before
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Jul 22, 2017 |
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139: Let's Circle Around to the Negativity
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Jul 14, 2017 |
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138: If I Wasn't Paid to Do It, I Wouldn't
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Jul 07, 2017 |
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137: Art and Commerce
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Jul 01, 2017 |
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136: Fightin' Through Some Shows
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Jun 23, 2017 |
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135: The Kevin Durant of TV
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Jun 17, 2017 |
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134: Damon Lindelof Didn't Lie
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Jun 09, 2017 |
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133: An Expensive Mess
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Jun 02, 2017 |
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132: I Killed It With Wine
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May 27, 2017 |
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131: Sad Balloon
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May 12, 2017 |
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130: I Sound Like a Madman
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May 06, 2017 |
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129: Don't Make This!
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Apr 28, 2017 |
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128: They All Read the Book
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Apr 21, 2017 |
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127: The French Will Buy It
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Apr 15, 2017 |
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126: Checking the Fien Print
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Apr 07, 2017 |
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125: Gentle Columbo
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Apr 01, 2017 |
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124: Like a Mime in a Box
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Mar 24, 2017 |
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123: Guys in Hats
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Mar 18, 2017 |
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122: Pinprick of Nostalgia
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Mar 11, 2017 |
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121: Ups and Lows
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Mar 04, 2017 |
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120: ...Unless You Try to Overachieve
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Feb 24, 2017 |
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119: Best in Show
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Feb 17, 2017 |
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118: Crack for Every Executive
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Feb 10, 2017 |
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117: A Couple of Episodes In
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Feb 03, 2017 |
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116: Like a Book... So I'm Told
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Jan 27, 2017 |
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115: Go Beneath the Memes
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Jan 20, 2017 |
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114: Vacuum of Incompetence
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Jan 13, 2017 |
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113: One Topic at a Time
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Jan 07, 2017 |
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112: I'm Gonna Watch Those Snakes
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Dec 30, 2016 |
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111: A Host At Your Own Party
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Dec 24, 2016 |
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110: Let's Casey Kasem This
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Dec 16, 2016 |
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109: Making Lists is Hard
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Dec 10, 2016 |
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108: You Guys Were So Civil Before
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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107: You Have to Go Beyond That
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Nov 18, 2016 |
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106: Nothing Was Working
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Nov 11, 2016 |
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105: Don't Get Weird
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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104: No Urgency or Agency
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Oct 26, 2016 |
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103: Ball of Confusion
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Oct 21, 2016 |
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102: The Guy Who Did
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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101: Pilot
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Oct 07, 2016 |
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100: Maybe Next Year, 'Gattaca'
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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99: Hello, Publicists!
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Sep 23, 2016 |
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98: He Sent Me a Tie
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Sep 16, 2016 |
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97: A Monkey in a Room Switching Channels
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Sep 03, 2016 |
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96: Sheet Management
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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95: They Deserve What They Got
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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94: We Saw the End Coming
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Aug 04, 2016 |
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93: Hologram Edition
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Jul 29, 2016 |
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92: Fauxçade
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Jul 23, 2016 |
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91: Obligatory Victory Lap
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Jul 16, 2016 |
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90: Unreliable Narrator
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Jul 09, 2016 |
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89: Fact-Checking the FCC
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Jul 02, 2016 |
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88: Brexit Edition
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Jun 25, 2016 |
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87: Lost in Austin
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Jun 18, 2016 |
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86: It Never Ends
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Jun 10, 2016 |
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85: Out of Wine and Xanax
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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84: Blimp Hoister
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May 27, 2016 |
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83: Trailers Cannot be Trusted
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May 20, 2016 |
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82: Swap Meet News
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May 13, 2016 |
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81: So Much Weird Stuff Is Happening Right Now
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May 06, 2016 |
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80: Come To Us, We Love You
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Apr 29, 2016 |
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79: The Hobo Eric Rule
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Apr 16, 2016 |
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78: Too Much Actual Fact
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Apr 08, 2016 |
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77: Mediocre is Generally Popular
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Apr 02, 2016 |
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76: Slow Binge
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Mar 26, 2016 |
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75: Struggling to Find out the Logic
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Mar 18, 2016 |
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74: Demon at Denny's
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Mar 12, 2016 |
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73: I Do Want Outrage
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Mar 05, 2016 |
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72: The Columbo Edition
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Feb 27, 2016 |
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71: Keep Oiling the Machine
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Feb 21, 2016 |
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70: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquistion
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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69: The 13-Year-Old Edition
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Feb 06, 2016 |
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68: The Punch-Drunk Edition
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Jan 30, 2016 |
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67: Dinosaur Ship
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Jan 23, 2016 |
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66: The Year of TV Muscles
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Jan 10, 2016 |
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65: The Best Network TV of 2015
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Dec 24, 2015 |
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64: The Best TV of 2015
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Dec 19, 2015 |
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63: Blindly Shooting Fish in a Barrel
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Dec 11, 2015 |
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62: I Forgot a Show
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Dec 05, 2015 |
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61: Stuffed and Bloated Edition
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Nov 27, 2015 |
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60: A Sleepy Endeavor
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Nov 20, 2015 |
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59: Amazon Season
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Nov 13, 2015 |
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58: They're Good Sports
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Nov 06, 2015 |
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57: This Is an Elite Program
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Oct 31, 2015 |
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56: I Hope This Series Dies
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Oct 23, 2015 |
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55: The Tim Lincecum Episode
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Oct 17, 2015 |
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54: Don't Be Late
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Oct 09, 2015 |
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53: Cheated on Its Viewers
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Oct 02, 2015 |
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52: Sneak Force
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Sep 26, 2015 |
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51: Welcome to THR, Dan
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Sep 19, 2015 |
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50: Jason Missed This?
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Sep 12, 2015 |
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49: Otters for the Win
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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48: What Happens Next? (Plus Bonus Content)
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Aug 28, 2015 |
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47: Binge It Like Cocaine
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Aug 20, 2015 |
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46: A Couple of Pops
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Aug 12, 2015 |
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45: It's Fun to Make Shows
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Jul 31, 2015 |
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44: The Willie McCovey Episode
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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43: Particularly Egregious
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Jul 16, 2015 |
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42: 18 Crazy Nights
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Jul 10, 2015 |
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41: Only in Monroe
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Jul 03, 2015 |
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40: Forget It, It's NBC
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Jun 27, 2015 |
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39: Refurbished Hugs
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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38: Awake at Good Times
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Jun 13, 2015 |
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37: Could Be a Thing
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Jun 05, 2015 |
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36: The Loser Channel
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May 29, 2015 |
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35: Updike It
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May 22, 2015 |
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34: Theories in My Mailbox
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May 15, 2015 |
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33: A Pilot Does Nothing
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May 08, 2015 |
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32: Green Brains & Ham
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May 02, 2015 |
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31: Bonus Criticism
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Apr 24, 2015 |
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30: Bullets Hurt
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Apr 17, 2015 |
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29: He's Not Gonna Be Happy
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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28: People Made This?
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Apr 04, 2015 |
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27: Werewolf Don Draper
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Mar 27, 2015 |
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26: Hang In There
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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25: Cubism Remake
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Mar 12, 2015 |
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24: It's Not a Thing
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Mar 06, 2015 |
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23: Alphabet of Awfulness
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Feb 27, 2015 |
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22: There's No Science in Television
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Feb 20, 2015 |
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21: Hoisted on His Own Petard
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Feb 12, 2015 |
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20: That's a No
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Feb 07, 2015 |
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19: Dots and Stars and Little Men
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Jan 31, 2015 |
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18: Slow Burn Everybody
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Jan 24, 2015 |
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17: Times of Confusion!
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Jan 16, 2015 |
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16: Death March With Flask
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Jan 09, 2015 |
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15: The Best TV of 2014
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Dec 31, 2014 |
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14: No Love Lost
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Dec 20, 2014 |
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13: Midseason Math
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Dec 13, 2014 |
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12: Asscension
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Dec 06, 2014 |
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11: Turkeys
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Nov 27, 2014 |
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10: Gracepointed
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Nov 21, 2014 |
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9: Bong-Fueled Genius
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Nov 14, 2014 |
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8: Ride Out the Garbage Fire
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Nov 08, 2014 |
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7: Surfer Boy
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Oct 31, 2014 |
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6: Bonus Content on the Sub-Web
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Oct 24, 2014 |
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5: My Positivity Keeps Me Afloat
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Oct 17, 2014 |
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4: A Miscalculation of Epic Proportions
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Oct 10, 2014 |
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3: Kind of Like a Cronut
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Oct 03, 2014 |
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2: A Bad Idea From Famous People
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Sep 26, 2014 |
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1: We Take the Bullet
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Sep 19, 2014 |