Carrying your weight on Who Asked You? is not terribly difficult. After all, there are 5 hosts to distribute it evenly. Think of this episode as 5 roommates trying to squeeze a big-ass couch through a doorway at the top of some steep stairs. Jabari and Dennis are at the top while Charlie, Mike and myself are fighting gravity at the bottom. Suffice it to say, the amount of weight pulled on any given episode varies. Even during this episode it fluctuates a bit.
During the New Releases, everyone is fighting to get the couch through the door. This is when Danielle Fishel, once again, comes up in the conversation. If you're a regular listener, you'll know we often refer to the actress who portrayed 'Topanga' in BOY MEETS WORLD as, 'To-bang-ya'... a phrase Jabari and Dennis coined, for obvious reasons, years before we started this show.
At this point, the couch is nearly through the opening as we move along to news that Universal plans to remake SCARFACE. It's their goal to bring the crime-filled cult classic into the 21st century. In their words, make it darker and grittier. Is it necessary? We offer up our thoughts on this, and as always, you're welcome to also. Just send us an E-Mail.
We've waited quite awhile for another 'dirty' adventure from our friend, Dirty Potter. And today that wait is over. However, this is the point in the 'couch moving' where Dennis and Jabari decide to take a break and it falls on the remaining 3 of us to keep it from tumbling down the stairs. As producer of the show, I look for cues from my co-hosts that a segment just doesn't work anymore. Perhaps it's run its course and needs to be removed. As much as I still love the Dirty Potter adventures, I can't ignore comments like, "Wake me up when it's over." Therefore, this will be the final airing of a Dirty Potter clip on the Who Asked You? show... As master of the program, I've got to get the couch through the doorway as smoothly as possible.
After Jabari naps and Dennis Nooks, we're able to slide the sofa through as the show winds down with some, Best Worst Most Least and Who Fact You? fun.
By the way, my inspiration behind the couch-moving analogy came from a post-show conversation following this episode. I asked who invented the couch and that turned into a 15-minute conversation about the difference between a couch and a sofa. How cool are we? Maybe what we learned will appear in a future Who Fact You? segment.
