S02.E08: Regrettable Television Pop Quiz

Something's making all of us happy this week: it's guest players Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, and Aisha Harris from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour! These three cohorts begin their face-off with our take on a PCHH favorite: The Regrettable Television [pops cheek] Pop Quiz — all about the worst and weirdest tv premieres of 2020. Then, it's the return deciphering groan-worthy wordplay via movie-food mashups in Apocalypse Chow Redux, with an all new set of culinary clues based on movies. It all wraps up with a set of Lightning Rounds that are truly tailor-made for today's contestants. NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🤢 Rhubarb not only tastes bad, the leaves are also mildly poisonous. So, really, there's no reason for anyone to eat it. 🦶 Putting your feet into a bath of water while an electrical current is run through you is a (fake) holistic medical treatment, just not one that showed up on Goop Lab. 🤠 If our description of 9-1-1 Lone Star made it sound bonkers, you don't know the half of it. "Exploding bull semen" comes to mind. 💯 The Stress Eating An Entire Loaf Of Focaccia In One Sitting Scorebreak: Eating an entire loaf of focaccia in one sitting — we've all been there. 💯 The Hovitos Scorebreak: If only you spoke Hovitos. 🍸 Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour! 🐦 Follow Aisha on Twitter 🌎 Aisha's official website 🐦 Follow Linda on Twitter 📘 Linda's book Evie Drake Starts Over 🐦 Glen on Twitter 📷 Peep Glen's pics on Instagram 🦇 Glen's book The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture