S07.E13: As Seen On TV

The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

We've arrived! It's the season seven finale to determine the next super mondo champion of champions! Sure, this game opens with a round based on sweaty wordplay, with round two building into a series metatextual mashup clues that combine multiple mediums. And yes, it culminates in a lightning round where the leaderboard is constantly shifting. But this is the finals, darnit, so returning champs Liz, Derek, and Matthew are all operating at a very high level, so the competition cannot be more tense. I had to stop writing this episode description to go pat myself down with a cool wet towel just from recalling how intense everything got. And I'm working from home today, so I forgot to put on Old Spice, so now the sweat has really cooked up a nasty stench in my general vicinity. And when it comes to straight up B.O., I wouldn't necessarily say that everyone loves their own brand 🤢. So I'm gonna go take a shower and let you listen to this incredible season finale on The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show.

NOTES

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🦸🏻‍♂️ Yes, Steven Tyler did a gig with Valiant (that would be the Bloodshot company) superhero Shadowman. Who is not cool enough to be Nightman.

⚖️ Can’t use it in the My Champion round, but when Nick and Nora actually did have a family reunion in The Thin Man Goes Home (1944), people got murdered. And the later Thin Man movies really weren’t fun for anyone.

🌹 We want to assure our Listen To Sassy fans that we would accept "W. Axl Rose" as the correct form of his name.

🛳 If you’re not sure about the connection between Tom Cruise and boat-based servitude, you might be happier for it.

🏃🏻‍♂️ Farrah Fawcett didn’t have a big role in Logan’s Run, but she was in there, as Holly 13. You know, the girl at the New You Shop.

💞 The Rebound scorebreak. The Rebound: hey, remember when Justin Bartha could be the lead in a romcom? [7/10. No. I don’t remember that. Wait, is that Catherine Zeta-Jones?]

🏆 Janet Jackson has 10 Video Music Awards; Lauryn Hill has 8 (four of them from 1999).

🪗 The Weird Al song with "I Touch Myself" is 1992’s "Polka Your Eyes Out".

👄 Oh, boy. We’re going to get more email about the correct pronunciation of Constantine.

📇 Tarsem Singh is known professionally as just Tarsem.

💊 The Matwix scorebreak. The Matwix: Yeah, no one needs to see Elmer Fudd waking up in a Matrix pod -we’re all kind of OK with this one getting memory holed. [5/10. Warner is memory-holing a lot these days. Yes, The Matwix is real, and really memory-holed.]

🔫 Man, we don’t ask enough questions about Lorenzo Lamas and Renegade.

🦅 Falcon Crest isn’t a spin-off of anything: it was envisioned as the inverse of The Waltons. But it does have Lorenzo Lamas!

✍️ Liz writes for Consequence

🐦 Liz is on Twitter

👩‍💻 Liz has a website!

🎞 Derek does movie riffing at Down in Front.

🔇 And you can see him live with Forgot to Mute.

🎙 See him live at Logan Square Improv.