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70 Years, 70 MuppetsEpisode 43 - ScooterThis week we spotlight the gifted gopher, Scooter!With host Shane Keating and guests Lucas Ross, with Adam Grosswirth, Addison, Anthony Strand, Becca Petunia, Christie Baugher, David Levy, Drake Lucas, Eli Lee, Gav, Jamie Carroll, Jarrod Fairclough, Joe Hennes, Katilyn Miller, Matthew Gaydos, Matthew Soberman, Michal Richardson, Mike Westfall, Revflooper, Sam Schulz, Tony Whitaker, Tori Schmidt2025-06-1517 min
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVShould You Tour The Residence?Muppeturgy's Adam Grosswirth returns to talk about Shondaland's latest show for Netflix, The Residence, which takes us behind the scenes at the White House via a murder mystery -- but could the stellar cast make up for a too-long runtime and not-funny-enough writing? Do we have an Only Murders In The West Wing copycat problem? And should you bother watching? We went Around The Dial with The Righteous Gemstones, Smash on Broadway, and B-B-B-B-Bosch: Legacy's swan-song season, and Adam hoped he could train the panel to vote a first-season Murder, She Wrote into the Canon. Project Runway won, Netflix lost...2025-03-261h 21
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVKinfolk Kerfuffle
Family Feud is a game show that has delighted audiences for decades by challenging teams of related players to guess answers supplied by randomly selected survey subjects. Completely unrelatedly, our latest special episode, Kinfolk Kerfuffle, has contestants trying to match poll answers submitted by our Discord members. Dave presides as chosen family Tara, Sarah, Adam Grosswirth, and Kim Reed take on handpicked tribe Taylor Cole, Dan Cassino, Larra Morris, and Nick Rheinwald-Jones. It's time to play the Feud Kerfuffle!
GUESTS
👤 Dan Cassino
👤 Taylor Cole
👤 Adam Grosswirth
👤 Larra Morris
👤 Kim Reed
👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones
TOPICS2025-02-1249 min70 Years, 70 MuppetsEpisode 18 - RobinThis week we spotlight everyone's favorite nephew, Robin!
With host Louie Pearlman and guests, the hosts of Muppeturgy; Adam Grosswirth, Michal Richardson, David Levy and Christie Baugher.2024-12-2215 min
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV2024 Guest Thought ExperimentsOnce again, we made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special yearly EHG tradition!
GUESTS
👤 Alan Sepinwall
👤 Brandi Brown
👤 Caroline Lefloch
👤 Sarah Baker
👤 Alison Herman
👤 Adam Grosswirth
👤 Taylor Cole
👤 Omar Gallaga
👤 Krystal Farmer
👤 Dan Cassino
👤 David Wiebe
👤 Eve Batey
👤 Monty Ashley
👤 Andy Dehnart
👤 Alex Collins
👤 Daniel MacEachern
👤 Kari Race
👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones
👤 Jessica Morgan
👤 Devindra Hardawar
👤 Stephanie Green
TOPICS
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9 Chickweed Rage038: Producing A Hissing Sound While Your Bosom SwellsFirst of all, we recorded on Brooke Dillman's actual birthday. That was fun. To celebrate, we welcomed our first-ever guest Adam Grosswirth to the podcast. He tipped us off to the disgusting storyline about Polly & Lolly wanting to fuck the same guy...and both basically being okay with the fact that they might just do that. It's a truly upsetting journey, that we only cover the tiniest fraction of. Oh man, the Mac-El-Dee sure loves writing about this tired masturbatory fantasy. They're both in love with a guy named Alistair, who appears to be in his mid-30s. But...2024-09-031h 22
Again With This: Dawson's, Melrose, 90210DC S02.E06: The DanceYES, this is a new episode; the dance episode in S01 is just called "Dance," and yes, it was a terrible idea for two episodes of the same show to have nearly identical titles, but here we are. All our opening-credits cast nonconformists know, as Andie does, that the Homecoming Dance is coming up. Unlike Andie, they don't care, until she points out that dancing can be a form of foreplay and all their horny asses get on board. Seeing Jen in the hallway still hanging out with Abby, Joey gets concerned that Abby's a bad influence and suggests asking...2024-08-0539 min
Again With This: Dawson's, Melrose, 90210DC S02.E05: Full Moon RisingIt's a full moon! Joey is pretty sure it's going to cause out-of-character behavior in the townsfolk, and she might be on to something: Mitch and Gale are so testy about one another's totally innocent visitors (Tamara in his case; some reporter colleague named Gary in hers), repeatedly making reference to THURSDAYS, that Dawson can't help noticing and demanding to know what is actually going on with their marriage. Elsewhere, a dead shift at the Icehouse gives Joey nothing to do but talk to Jack, and resume noticing that he is more sensitive than she initially gave him credit for...2024-07-2941 min
Again With This: Dawson's, Melrose, 90210DC S02.E04: Tamara's ReturnAs we saw at the end of the last episode, Tamara somehow has the nerve to show her face back in Capeside AFTER EVERYTHING. Officially it's to sell her house and also a warehouse (???), the latter possibly to Mitch for his fake restaurant, which is why Dawson is the first credits-cast Capeside High student to see her. He does TRY to warn Pacey, but not hard enough, since as we keep saying, he's a bad friend. And while Andie does pick up on a vibe when she witnesses Pacey running into Tamara totally unprepared (bad friend, is what he has...2024-07-2253 min
Movin' Right Along: A Muppet Movie PodcastA Room Full of GunpowderWe're talking about Minutes 17-18 of Muppet Treasure Island, in which pirates attack the inn and it's pure chaos. With special guest Adam Grosswirth of Muppeturgy!
PLUS: There's so much fire in this movie! Larry is the best Stooge! How do dogs swear? Which pirate is Dirk? The Treasure Island anime! And strong opinions about Tubi's new logo!
ALSO: Watch Kermit and Scooter present at the 1986 Oscars on YouTube!
Hosted by Anthony Strand & Ryan Roe
Guest Adam Grosswirth
Produced & Edited by Ryan Roe
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Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVShould You Make Elsbeth Your Co-Counsel?The Good [X]-verse returns to network television with Elsbeth, a procedural starring Carrie Preston's capital-Q Quirky Elsbeth Tascioni -- and Adam Grosswirth returns to EHG to talk about how the show is trying to have it both ways with the character's historical anti-establishment attitude; whether these creators should have moved this set of shows' universe off of streaming; and what exactly is in all those massive tote bags. We went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind's sixth season, So You Think You Can Dance's surprise return, and Sarah's belated finishing of The Good Fight, and then we threw...2024-03-061h 39
Mark And Sarah Talk About SongsDo Call It A Comeback, Episode 9: The Elite 8We're down to eight great comeback songs; which ones will join the Do Call It A Comeback season's Final Four? We're quoting Wayne's World, we're putting things in plaid place out of eight, we're remembering upsetting Beatles gifts, we're adding salt to temp tracks, and we're wondering why it so often seemed like nobody cared about Laura Branigan's reputation. Transmitting live-to-tape from the floor of the Utah legislature while on a date with Bonnie Raitt, it's Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs!
Our intro is an LL Byrne J mash-up, and our outro is by Squeeze. For m...2023-11-1347 min
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVDo You Know What Time It Is? It's Curtain Time!Dave had collected several different Game Times about the intersection of stage and TV stardom, so what could he do but save them for our most theatre-knowledgeable friends to play in this special episode? Mark Blankenship, Sean Pflueger, and Adam Grosswirth (that was his joke in the episode title) join us to test their memories for stage trivia and their ears for famous stage singers. Those blinking lights mean it's time for you to find your seat and listen!
GUESTS
👤 Mark Blankenship
👤 Adam Grosswirth
👤 Sean Pflueger
TOPICS
Game Time: 🏆 T...2023-03-151h 22
This Had Oscar Buzz234 – Dear Evan Hansen (with Adam Grosswirth!)To settle your post-Oscar hangover, we’re cracking open the Class of 2021 films this week and we’ve invited Muppeturgy co-host Adam Grosswirth to join us. Dear Evan Hansen follows a titular teen battling severe social anxiety, who fabricates a friendship with his bully after he dies by suicide, and faces the consequences of his lie … Continue reading "234 – Dear Evan Hansen (with Adam Grosswirth!)"2023-03-142h 17
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVFeasting On Snack Vs. ChefNetflix's new cooking show takes a leaf from Claire Saffitz's book and challenges its chefs to make their own homemade versions of commercially available snacks. Home Cook and Food Scientist (one of these titles accurately applies) Adam Grosswirth returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Mythic Quest, Selena + Chef, and an update on Sarah's Cheers rewatch. Adam pitches the Will & Grace two-parter "Lows In The Mid-Eighties" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's on the bleeding edge of culture. Grab some O...2022-11-301h 30
Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.comHubba-Wha?! Episode #11 - The Muppet Show Season 1It’s time once again for America’s favorite Muppet trivia show, Hubba-Wha?! This week, host Becca Petunia is joined by Matthew Gaydos of the Kermitment Podcast and Adam Grosswirth of the Muppeturgy Podcast. They’ll face challenges based on the first season of the world’s only frog-hosted variety show, The Muppet Show! Who’s this week’s Toughest Pig? Our guests will have to waltz at the dance, sit in with the orchestra, and remember Sweetums’ first appearance if they want to hit the bigtime and win fabulous prizes. Plus: Do we like Thog, or is he too perfect? P...2022-08-2555 minMark And Sarah Talk About SongsThe Lilith Fair 40, Episode 01: The First 5It's the first "real" episode of the Lilith Fair 40: Dar Williams, Meredith Brooks, Frente!, Suzanne Vega, and The Corrs inaugurate our chart, with help from the MCSL "listies" mixtape, greasy-haired sad boys, how to sing about a building collapse, incomplete subversion of the male gaze, and sibling bands to fall asleep to. All this, and Mark may have identified his overall #1 song -- in the first five minutes! Put on an extra layer of crystal deodorant, because we're on a journey here, people.
Our intro is by Laura Barger and Jack Baldelli, and our outro is by...2022-07-2537 min
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVEHG Listener Fall ForceningYour co-hosts weren't feeling that psyched about any of this week's TV premieres -- sorry, Judy Justice on IMDbTV -- so we invited our Patreon supporters to pitch and then vote on TV episodes for us to discuss under the rubric Fall Forcenings. Thus we are going in on L.A. Law's "Good To The Last Drop" with guest Adam Grosswirth, who originally watched it as a pre-teen and...learned a lot about hysterectomies and their possible side effects? Around The Dial takes us through Insecure, Queens, The Big Leap, The Good Wife, and The Good Fight. Adam makes...2021-11-031h 16
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVMuppet ThunderdomeOver New Year's, we treated our Patreon supporters to a very important thought experiment: if 27 Smurfs entered Thunderdome to compete in battles to the death, who would be the last Smurf standing? Now, we are turning our minds to the same question...but with Muppets from The Muppet Show. Naturally, we had to bring in an expert to consider the question, which is why Adam Grosswirth of the Muppeturgy podcast is here. Will Fozzie Bear emerge alive from combat with Lew Zealand and Sam the Eagle? Does Camilla the Chicken peck her way out of battle with Sweetums and...2021-03-241h 13
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVInvestigating The Hardy BoysHulu and Canada's kids' broadcaster YTV have brought the world a new adaptation of the nearly-100-year-old boy detectives Frank and Joe Hardy, and we've enlisted Adam Grosswirth to join us in discussing it! A super-sized Around The Dial takes us through Selena: The Series, Nurses, Jingle Jangle, Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square, the original '70s version of The Hardy Boys, and Gangs Of London. After Joe M. uses his Extra Credit topic to have us write a character-revealing power ballad into an otherwise un-musical show, Adam makes his pitch for the "Fair Is Foul And Foul...2020-12-091h 36
Caroline and the PodcastSir, This Is A Remo's (Caroline and the Gift)More Monkeys and Bears, oh my! This week Adam Grosswirth helps us ring in 1996 in style in episode 1.11, “Caroline and the Gift”! The rabbit holes are deeper and wilder than ever as we discuss the reality of backstage at the Winter Garden, Richard’s enormous pants, Remo’s in Denny’s Mode, Alotta Fagina at the Life Cafe, and Del’s inadvertent invention of the Apple Watch. Toothpaste is good stuff!2020-10-081h 15
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV276: Disney+ Blasts Off With The MandalorianDisney+ finally launched earlier this week, so we thought we'd talk The Mandalorian with Adam Grosswirth. How does the show fit into the Star Wars universe -- and should it bother? Is it hiding Pablo Pascal's light under a mask bushel? And was a certain very cute puppet perhaps pandering to longtime franchise fans? Later, we went Around The Dial with High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Encore, Back To Life, a POV on Bill Nye, and two Dark shows, and Adam hoped his and Eleanor's joint Grey's Anatomy presentation for the Canon wouldn't bomb. A League Of Their...2019-11-131h 47
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVDisney+ Blasts Off With The MandalorianDisney+ finally launched earlier this week, so we thought we'd talk The Mandalorian with Adam Grosswirth. How does the show fit into the Star Wars universe -- and should it bother? Is it hiding Pedro Pascal's light under a mask bushel? And was a certain very cute puppet perhaps pandering to longtime franchise fans? Later, we went Around The Dial with High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Encore, Back To Life, a POV on Bill Nye, and two Dark shows, and Adam hoped his and Eleanor's joint Grey's Anatomy presentation for the Canon wouldn't bomb. A League Of...2019-11-131h 44
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV263: Pinning Down Season 3 Of GLOWGLOW returned to Netflix for its third season last weekend, and Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to discuss the action's move to Vegas, the realism of a long run, whether a more serious tone worked, and where a possible Season 4 can go from here. We went Around The Dial with The Family, Wu Assassins, So You Think You Can Dance, and Last Tango In Halifax before Erica challenged us to create Tony-winning musical episodes from TV shows of yore. We got out the paddles for a Canon submission from Sean on Schitt's Creek, then declared a dead Confederate a winner...2019-08-141h 44
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVPinning Down Season 3 Of GLOWGLOW returned to Netflix for its third season last weekend, and Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to discuss the action's move to Vegas, the realism of a long run, whether a more serious tone worked, and where a possible Season 4 can go from here. We went Around The Dial with The Family, Wu Assassins, So You Think You Can Dance, and Last Tango In Halifax before Erica challenged us to create Tony-winning musical episodes from TV shows of yore. We got out the paddles for a Canon submission from Sean on Schitt's Creek, then declared a dead Confederate a...2019-08-141h 42
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV245: Putting On Our Capezios For Fosse/VerdonFX is returning to the Feud space with Fosse/Verdon, a deep dive on a pair of contentious performing geniuses; Broadway savant Adam Grosswirth joins us to opine on whether it should have opened and closed the same night. Around The Dial spins through the Season 2 premiere of Killing Eve; the series finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; Brit crime drama Unforgotten; and Cinemax's new period immigration/tong drama Warrior. In the absence of a Canon segment (...it's a long story), we speed through the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a special double shot of Game Time. Grab a...2019-04-101h 44
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVPutting On Our Capezios For Fosse/VerdonFX is returning to the Feud space with Fosse/Verdon, a deep dive on a pair of contentious performing geniuses; Broadway savant Adam Grosswirth joins us to opine on whether it should have opened and closed the same night. Around The Dial spins through the Season 2 premiere of Killing Eve; the series finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; Brit crime drama Unforgotten; and Cinemax's new period immigration/tong drama Warrior. In the absence of a Canon segment (...it's a long story), we speed through the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a special double shot of Game Time. Grab...2019-04-101h 42
Mark And Sarah Talk About SongsEpisode 125: ABBA-sode!At long last, ABBA. Adam Grosswirth joins us to discuss three of the group's classic songs, plus unlikely Swedish museums and the naughtiest things you can scream out a window.
Our intro is by David Gregory Byrne, and our outro is by Madonna. Want to request a song, buy a birthday chart reading, or just say hello? Email us (talkaboutsongs@gmail.com), tweet us (@TalkSongs), or Facebook us (facebook.com/mastas.podcast). Want to get bonus content and vote in ranking episodes? Become a patron at patreon.com/mastas. Special Guest: Adam Grosswirth.
See Privacy Policy...2018-11-1559 min
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV219: Saddle Up A New Season Of BoJack HorsemanBoJack Horseman dropped another season last weekend -- along with practically every other streaming show, but this simultaneously hilarious, dirty, and dark animated dramedy is the one we chose to discuss, along with the correct amount of Todd; background hilarity; and spot-on guest casting. We went Around The Dial with Forever, The First, Deutschland 83 and 86, the newest American Horror Story, and a years-in-the-making verdict on whether Dave hated Troy: Fall Of A City, and Adam hoped to declare mission accomplished on his submission of the 2018-09-191h 34
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVSaddle Up A New Season Of BoJack HorsemanBoJack Horseman dropped another season last weekend -- along with practically every other streaming show, but this simultaneously hilarious, dirty, and dark animated dramedy is the one we chose to discuss, along with the correct amount of Todd; background hilarity; and spot-on guest casting. We went Around The Dial with Forever, The First, Deutschland 83 and 86, the newest American Horror Story, and a years-in-the-making verdict on whether Dave hated Troy: Fall Of A City, and Adam hoped to declare mission accomplished on his submission of the Alias two-part second-season finale for the Canon. Aaron "Todd" Paul won, the Downey/Burnett...2018-09-191h 32
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV196: Raising Our Voices On RiseNBC having lined up the showrunner from Friday Night Lights, a producer of Hamilton, and the former Ted Mosby for a weekly drama series about a high school putting on a musical, it was made very clear to us that we had better not think of having any guest on to talk about it other than Adam Grosswirth -- and since we can take a hint, we were happy to have him on to discuss whether the show hits all the right notes. Around The Dial takes us through The Arrangement, 2018-03-211h 29
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVRaising Our Voices On RiseNBC having lined up the showrunner from Friday Night Lights, a producer of Hamilton, and the former Ted Mosby for a weekly drama series about a high school putting on a musical, it was made very clear to us that we had better not think of having any guest on to talk about it other than Adam Grosswirth -- and since we can take a hint, we were happy to have him on to discuss whether the show hits all the right notes. Around The Dial takes us through The Arrangement, Slings & Arrows and Nailed It! before we ponder...2018-03-211h 27
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV186: Now Boarding L.A. To VegasA new year means new sitcoms, and Spotted Dick/seasoned business traveler Adam Grosswirth is joining us to discuss one in particular: Fox's budget-airline-com L.A. To Vegas! We debate whether Dave Will Hate Ridley Scott's new TV project The Terror, before Around The Dial takes us to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 9-1-1, The X-Files, and The Leftovers. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy Goes To A Play!" is submitted for induction into the EHG Nonac, and then after naming the new year's first...2018-01-101h 14
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVNow Boarding L.A. To VegasA new year means new sitcoms, and Spotted Dick/seasoned business traveler Adam Grosswirth is joining us to discuss one in particular: Fox's budget-airline-com L.A. To Vegas! We debate whether Dave Will Hate Ridley Scott's new TV project The Terror, before Around The Dial takes us to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 9-1-1, The X-Files, and The Leftovers. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy Goes To A Play!" is submitted for induction into the EHG Nonac, and then after naming the new year's first Winner and Loser, it's we finish our televisual tour of these United States in...2018-01-101h 12
The Blotter PresentsEpisode 36: 030: The Lost Wife Of Robert Durst And Crime MusicalsIs The Lost Wife Of Robert Durst -- or, as Sarah D. Bunting billed it to her guests, Smash meets The Jinx -- worth the two hours? Panel of Smash experts Tara Ariano, Adam Grosswirth, and Kevin O'Keeffe weigh in on the case narrative, bad wigs, worse accents, and who this movie is for. Later, the group pitted famous cases against each other in King Of "Notorious Crime: The Musical" Mountain.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2017-11-0837 min
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV168: Getting Our Hands On The DefendersNetflix's long-awaited Marvel team-up The Defenders arrives...but given how long it was awaited, why isn't it better? Our Two Spotted Dicks pal Adam Grosswirth joins us to discuss. Around The Dial stops at the Claws finale, Episodes, So You Think You Can Dance, and Project Runway, ahead of Dave's musical question: are Netflix's trailer preview screens Worse Than Jazz? Adam boldly makes the case for inducting Smash's pilot into the Canon, and after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to...2017-08-241h 22
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVGetting Our Hands On The DefendersNetflix's long-awaited Marvel team-up The Defenders arrives...but given how long it was awaited, why isn't it better? Our Two Spotted Dicks pal Adam Grosswirth joins us to discuss. Around The Dial stops at the Claws finale, Episodes, So You Think You Can Dance, and Project Runway, ahead of Dave's musical question: are Netflix's trailer preview screens Worse Than Jazz? Adam boldly makes the case for inducting Smash's pilot into the Canon, and after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time to die for. Put on your most bulletproof hoodie and join us!2017-08-231h 20
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV90: The Good Wife: Still Good?As The Good Wife returns for its seventh season, we welcome Adam Grosswirth to talk about how well the season premiere washes away the bad taste left by Season 6. Liv gives us her report on a freak show-focused episode of Face Off, and The Blotter Presents tells you about Showtime's Warren Jeffs documentary Prophet's Prey (and some other highlights from the annals of Mormon true crime). Around The Dial stops at The Daily Show, Once Upon A Time, the just-announced TV series adaptation of the podcast Serial, and Manhattan, and then Adam makes the case for Star Trek's "Mirror Mirror"...2015-10-051h 45
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TVThe Good Wife: Still Good?As The Good Wife returns for its seventh season, we welcome Adam Grosswirth to talk about how well the season premiere washes away the bad taste left by Season 6. Liv gives us her report on a freak show-focused episode of Face Off, and The Blotter Presents tells you about Showtime's Warren Jeffs documentary Prophet's Prey (and some other highlights from the annals of Mormon true crime). Around The Dial stops at The Daily Show, Once Upon A Time, the just-announced TV series adaptation of the podcast Serial, and Manhattan, and then Adam makes the case for Star Trek's "Mirror...2015-10-041h 45
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV55: Gleeking OutOur esteemed colleague Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to talk about Glee's final season, the two Ryan Murphys, and how the polarizing show will end. After we laughed at Kroll Show and failed to fall for The Fall, Dave showed off his Night Moves, and we wondered which live musical would hit the nets next. Liv took inspiration from Face Off, one Sarah Bunting cleared a manor house of Russians, and Adam produced a third-season Muppet Show for the Canon before we played a dy-no-miiiiiiiite theme-song...2015-01-202h 04