Sitcom Draft

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draft as we try to create the ultimate situational

comedy of all time. Before we get to that, how's

the week been going for you guys? It's been going

pretty well. I guess probably the highlight of

the week was Father's Day festivities. My dad

wanted to go to a local car show that they have

around here every year at this big park that's

called Neog Park. Every year they probably have

between 400 and 500 classic cars there. It's

a really, really big show. We haven't gone in

quite some time. We used to go a lot, but we

probably haven't been there in like four or five

years. So we decided we'd head back there this

year. And it was a really cool time. We got to

look at all the old muscle cars and drool over

the ones that we can't afford and everything.

It's crazy how much those cars are worth right

now. You can't find anything for under $30 ,000.

That's crazy. My dad and like everyone from his

generation. It's like, it seems like everyone

had one of those cars at one point and like most

of them got rid of one and like most of them

like kind of wish that they hung onto it or something

like that, but just because of like how valuable

they are now and stuff. But it's fun to look

at, you know. The generation and muscle cars

are generation at comic books. Feels like a little

less manly. You know, it's like, right. Well,

you know, we have fast and furious, but it's,

it's just not quite as, you know. Not quite as

manly, I guess. No, when it sounds like your

car is powered by a kazoo, it doesn't really

have the same oomph to it at all. Yeah, the fart

can mufflers. But yeah, we had a good time. We

talked to a couple of guys there about their

cars and most of them were pretty friendly and

stuff. It was a hot day, but it was neat just

to get out for a couple of hours. And then we

all went as a family. We all went out for some

miniature golfing and stuff. So that was a good

time. Had a nice little... Relaxing day, I guess

you would say nice nice Greg. How about you?

How things going with you? Are you feeling any

better from last week in your? You're very violent

vacation Yeah, I'm feeling better. The only problem

is if I sneeze then that That really, really

hurts still. I don't know what the hell the deal

is with that, but I sneeze like at least once

a day and then apparently my body's like, oh

yeah, I shouldn't do that. That's not fun. Um,

but other than that, I've been like really lazy

lying around. I've been watching a lot of, uh,

if you remember back in the day, They had a breaking

the magicians code and they had this dude in

this this funky mask that kind of came out and

did magic trick and then showed you how it was

done. So I've been watching a lot of that kind

of stuff, which is interesting. I learned a small

sleight of hand trick that's kind of cool. And

I pulled it on my parents and they were actually

impressed. Yeah, I remember that was like on

like it was like He had a weird -looking mask

on and then they finally like revealed who it

was and I'm like, I have no idea who that is

It was a guy named Val Valentina That just sounds

funny I don't even know what you know, you gotta

use you gotta use those moves to pick up some

babes now Greg Yeah, the one trick that I know

He does have four assistants and they get very

punny and Like over sexualized with the with

the assistants that kind of come out on stage

I'm like this is worse than me even I'm like

I'm having trouble handling it and I'm like the

biggest like over sexualized and punny remarks

like it's it was bad Yeah I don't remember that

in the show, but maybe it was just as a kid was

over my head, but I guess yeah It was like during

his little commentary. I doubt you would remember

the commentary is it was like and here comes

his lovely assistance as always up He made her

legs disappear. I hope he brings them back soon

I know I'll miss them Oh man, apparently he can't

make his creep factor disappear so he doesn't

have that ability. He pulled some creepiness

out from behind his ear. I like Chuck had a pretty

good father's day, it was my second. My son to

his first baseball game, which is was exciting

because it's the first time I've been the Kenman

yards in Baltimore in quite some time It was

this point. It was a beautiful day We made it

like all the way to like the top of the eighth

But like after that, like he was just kind of

ready to go I would actually probably meet it

but there was a huge delay because the umpire

got hurt from behind the plate I guess he got

hit by a balls day to get replaced So but the

game itself was great Orioles won they were rocking

it. So pretty and then we also the day before

that Went to a chap's pit beef, which is a famous

place around here got a sandwich, which is like

I put a Picture on Twitter Twitter and Instagram

of it, you know, it's a cam roast beef turkey

and I had American cheese and Some jalapenos

in it as well. It was like, you know, I didn't

have to eat for like a week after that It was

it was intense. It was a good time But yeah,

so enjoyed some good time with the family. It

was it was enjoyable I'm surprised Connor made

it that far into the eighth inning. He was doing

great We were actually were we lucked out because

we were on the where we were sitting we were

Underneath the upper deck so we weren't in the

Sun we were nice There's actually a lot of families

there because it was Father's Day But there was

a lot of kids and there's some kids behind us

that he was kind of playing with and the guys

the person next was actually was great because

uh I guess they had two extra tickets, so they

let us like We only had two seats, and we were

just kind of like you know because he can't take

a seat But by himself, but we put him in between

us and it worked out well for the most part and

he kind of just hung out and You did pretty well.

Anytime he got antsy, we kind of walked around.

They have like a little play area for for kids.

And then we also went to got us like to give

you a certificate for your first baseball game.

Oh, nice. Got one of those. Apparently, it's

for anyone. So I kind of got one as an adult,

but I never did. And I should have. But it's

like it's just your name, like in your first

Orioles game. So that was that was kind of cool.

We went to the area for kids, but it was. He

was too young for most of it because it's like

a slide area and then batting cages and a moon

bounce and stuff like that. He's too young for

all that. I'm pretty sure Connor probably would

have lasted through the game longer than I would

have. Probably. He was really into it. He's like,

you know, that guy's on my daily fantasy team.

I'm like, I didn't even know you had a daily

fantasy team. I have a lot of things I got going

on you don't know about. It's much better at

daily fantasy than I am. As long as he's not

like on DraftKings or something, we gotta hear

those commercials again. Yeah, I know. I can

never do fantasy baseball. It's just too much

of a commitment. Just like, it's too much. Yeah,

that and I only know about like... Seven players

in the entire league Probably six of those around

the Orioles Actually speaking of baseball. I

recently watched a baseball inspired movie and

that's Actually from Richard Linklater director.

He's done the before series and he's in confused

and the movie's a spiritual sequel today's new

confused It's called everybody wants some and

recent film came out this year and the premise

of it is actually it's about this baseball team

It's like three days before college starts or

college baseball team, and it kind of just follows

them around in their escapades. It's very much

in the vein of Dazed and Confused and the fact

that it's not very plot heavy. It's just kind

of going from vignette to vignette, like letting

you hang out with these characters for, you know,

a few hours basically, and actually really quite

dug it. It reminded me of like... The grown -up

Sandlot, in the sense where, yeah, it's about

baseball, but baseball isn't, you know, there's

no stakes. They're not playing for the championship.

They're, they practice. There's one scene of

them practicing. It's really about the camaraderie

of these guys, these guys as individuals. I'm

trying to find themselves with who they really

are within, within the framework of kind of the

neighborhood they're growing up with. And they're

just, they all really feel like really authentic

people who are very, of the time, it's very much

a period piece. It takes place in the early eighties.

it's very like it's a kind of movie where you're

listening to the music and it's like I the soundtrack

is gonna be great because it's filled with Just

iconic songs from the time period all different

ones from country to disco to rock to pretty

much everything to punk and it's this I know

it's almost like a microcosm of just like that

time frame in that time period and and it's like

I said, it's not very the story itself is rather

simplistic. It's just following these guys. There's

somewhat of a through line with one of the main

characters who It's somewhat seeking this girl,

but it's really about you know them them their

party escapades them joining them them Doing

all these you know type type of bro activities

in a way and I could see that being annoying

from some people But I think it there are some

more there. It's it's within all the you know

typical behavior is Some discussion that you're

if you know Richard link later. He is like a

guy who loves his Pontificating when it comes

to dialogue and it's within that as well to make

it more than just your blatant sex comedy But

it's a lot of fun. I just enjoyed being watching

it and as a guy who loves the Sandlot and they

know they're very odd comparison But they do

seem like a very good double bill, you know It's

like watching that version of kids and then seeing

that those same type of people as like, you know

right before college college high school years,

so It was fun. I would, I would definitely recommend

it. Um, not much more to say about it than that.

Like I said, if you're ritual and clinical inner

fan, like these are confused, I would definitely

recommend it. But along the same line of sports,

I know not baseball, but basketball, Chuck, you've

been all about it recently. We touched upon it

last week and I made a joke about Lombon James

not winning the championship and then he does

win the championship. So, Hey, what are you going

to do? You know, can't be right about everything,

but, uh, uh, I was curious what you've been watching

recently. Actually, I've been watching a few

sports documentaries. I'm a big fan of sports

documentaries. I never like, you know, plan on

sitting down and watching anything, but it's

sort of those spur of the moment things where

like, I'll have like an extra like, you know,

hour or two. And like, I'll just kind of sit

down and ESPN will be running like a 30 for 30

marathon or something like that. Or like, you

know, maybe on the NFL network, they're playing

those, you know, football life shows or something

like that. And I love that stuff. So this week,

I actually got to see two ESPN 30 for 30 documentaries.

And the first one that I'm going to talk about

is coincidentally about the city of Cleveland.

And the title of it was called Believeland. Yeah,

there you go. Yeah. This is actually a great

documentary. It's basically, it kind of goes

through the history of Cleveland sports and it

kind of highlights all of the major failures

of the sports teams, I guess you would say, just

to kind of point out the times where their team

made it to a championship or close to a championship

and completely blew it. And it's it's actually

astounding how many times that this has happened

to Cleveland teams. And there's like there's

specific events. And it's funny because like

during the documentary, they they interview people

that are like from the city of Cleveland, like

they're Cleveland natives. And I never realized,

but Arsenio Hall is a Cleveland native and they

were interviewing him on the show. And it was

funny because he was pointing out the fact that

he's like, there are actual like events. in the

history of Cleveland sports, where they take

an important thing that happened and they put

the word the in front of it. And he said, it's

usually it usually happened to us. Like it was

something catastrophic. So he's like, if you

if you if you Google stuff like this right now,

it will come up. Cleveland sports like the drive.

Obviously, when, you know, John Alway drove 98

yards in the AFC championship game and. defeated

the Browns when they essentially snatch defeat

from the jaws of victory. The fumble, you know,

when when the artist binary, you know, fumbled

on the two yard line, it would have sealed the

deal for them in that game. And the shot, which

was when the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team

was playing Michael Jordan, the Bulls. And, you

know, they kind of had the game in hand. And

that's when Jordan made that famous shot from

just behind the foul line. And he was kind of

like. Jumping in midair and he hung just a little

bit longer than the other guy Till he moved out

of the way and Jordan sank the junk jump shop

about the butt fumble Well, that was the Jets

Question how many times did you rewind the Jordan

shot just to watch it over again? Well, the funny

part is I didn't have to because they showed

about six times Yeah, they like they just kept

showing him and I forget the guy's name on Cleveland

a search for the E I think it was like a strange

name, four letter name, but I can't remember

how to pronounce it. Um, but like the guy, you

know, jumped up and it was obviously like a really

tall guy and he jumped up to like block it. But

like, like Jordan had this uncanny ability to

just like levitate in the air. And like he, like

they both jumped, but it just seemed like Jordan

like stayed up longer. It was so weird. And the

guy like as he's Coming down, he's kind of moving

out of the way and Jordan like kind of just falls

back and makes this jump shot. And that's when

the famous thing where he, you know, he jumps

up and the Cleveland guy kind of like falls over

into the bench and stuff. So that like that's

labeled the shot. So there's like all these things

with the word the in front of it. And they go

through and they talk about all of these. And

they also talk about the baseball team, the Cleveland

Indians. the 95 season, they came close to winning

the World Series and they kind of blew it. But

the 97 season in particular, I thought that was

really entertaining to listen to some of the

people retell that story. They ended up playing

Florida Marlins in the World Series and the Florida

Marlins at that time were an expansion team.

They were the new team in the league. I'm not

sure if it was that year or the year before,

but they're a very, very new franchise. So they're

they're in the World Series for getting all these,

you know, good players and everything on their

team And they're they're playing the Indians

and I believe it was the series was tied 3 -3.

They were in game seven It was the bottom of

the ninth and I think there was two outs and

the Cleveland Indians were up two to one and

Wild thing came out. Yeah it was fascinating

listening to a couple of people talking the one

guy was like a um like a cleveland uh sports

writer i think he might have had like a radio

show at one point or something like that but

he's kind of telling the story about how you

know obviously they just they kind of need like

one out to win the game they're up two to one

and like the the mlb officials are like literally

bringing in the world series trophy into the

cleveland indians locker room like they're wheeling

it in on this cart and yeah and they're and then

they're wheeling in this this other cart with

like all the champagne and everything that they're

going to like you know just start spraying all

over when they celebrate and everything and they're

bringing in the hats and the t -shirts and everything

says you know cleveland indians world series

champions and stuff like that so they're wheeling

all this stuff in the locker room and like people

like could kind of see them doing it like some

of these guys and they remember thinking like

this is like surreal you know like this is just

too weird you know so like you know, back to

the game. The Florida Marlins proceed to get

a couple of base hits. They drive in a tying

run. So the game is now tied 2 -2 in the bottom

of the ninth. The MLB officials... wheel the

trophy back out of the locker room. They take

the champagne with them. They take the hats and

shirts and just like all the Cleveland fans are

like, like, are you serious? Like this is happening.

They're literally taking it out of our hands,

like out of our grasp. And then, of course, the

Marlins with another base hit, they drive in

the winning run and they win the World Series.

And Cleveland is just devastated. I was like,

oh my gosh, that's like one of the craziest sports

stories I've ever heard. It's funny because you

don't hear many people talking about that series.

Yeah. That's what I thought, because like I never

knew about it. And I watched this and I'm like,

how did I not hear about this? This is like such

a fascinating story, you know, to literally like

deliver the trophy to them. And then it's like,

no, can't have it and like take it back out.

But pretty crazy. I'm guessing nowadays they

probably wait till the actual game's over. But

that was pretty funny. They also talk about a

couple of their major points, like obviously

the Cleveland Browns leaving the city of Cleveland

when Art Modell moved them out of the city for

financial reasons. I'm not sure exactly what

the details of the reasons were, but they wouldn't

let him. get a new football stadium. I guess

he couldn't secure the funding for it. And he

kind of threatened to move the team and stuff

like that. And I guess he never intended to actually

move it, but he kind of felt like his hand was

forced and like people hated him for that. Like

he got death threats and like all this stuff

in the mail, like hate, hate mail letters and

stuff like that. Obviously moved the team to

Baltimore that became the Baltimore Ravens. And

I'm sure Dan's Probably wishing that never happened,

but. And then a few years later, they won the

Super Bowl. So yeah, and that's that's what they

talked about, too. Like the guy was saying, you

know, it was only a few years and Modell was

I think Modell was still the owner. And yeah,

because he was he was down the field and he was

saying like, you know, watching the Ravens win

the Super Bowl and watch. watching Art Modell

actually lift the trophy up they said it was

like sickening they wanted to like throw up because

they felt like that was that was theirs you know

if they would have stayed in Cleveland so yeah

that was a very very low point a lot of people

in the city were extremely like depressed you

know in a big city your football team means a

lot you know any sports team really and then

you know especially if they just move out that's

That's heartbreaking for a lot of people as sad

as it may sound, but. And then also obviously

when they drafted LeBron James for the Cleveland

Cavaliers basketball team, they, they thought

that, you know, their luck was going to turn

around because he was like the best player to

come out since like Jordan. Um, and he was going

to win them a championship and a few years into

it, they, they had a few disappointments and

everything. And then obviously I'm not sure it

was. If it was four years or seven years, I can't

remember exactly how he, how long he was there

in the first stint, but obviously left and went

to the Miami heat. Um, so the city was like heartbroken

when that happened. They felt like, and, and

LaRon James was actually from Akron, which is

just outside Cleveland. So they, they felt like

he was like one of their own, you know, one of

their own people. And he just kind of abandoned

some and goes to Miami obviously went into two

championships there. but it was it was interesting

because this I watched this show and I think

this is the reason they played it obviously but

this this show was on the exact night of game

seven of the NBA finals last weekend and of course

we all know the Cavaliers actually wound up winning

Ron James and the Cavaliers so they finally uh

got a championship in the city of Cleveland it's

been 52 years since any of their teams have won

a championship so that that's why that was such

a huge deal and you know after all the heartbreak

and everything all those times where they came

so close they finally got it so it was pretty

neat for me to watch that show and then see that

happen it was a neat little you know neat little

story arc to kind of experience over the weekend

i thought that was pretty cool so did that show

actually have you rooting for lebron james over

the at the end of at the end of game seven no

Mean in a way I was rooting for the city of Cleveland

kind of like I I really felt bad for them especially

after watching this documentary I was like wow

these fans have been through so much like and

I'm like, you know, it wouldn't be so bad if

they won I I know I'm not a huge LeBron fan,

but he's not the worst guy in the world So and

and also if the Warriors won people would have

been trying to say that they were better than

the 96 Bulls Which they're clearly not It was

funny because they showed like a this graphic

like even if even if the Warriors would have

won They still actually would have lost five

more games than the Bulls did in their season

Because they lost more playoff games than the

Bulls did I saw it was like a meme of something

about like, you know Oh LeBron James has the

most points ever in a game seven It's like Jordan

was like I probably would too, but I never got

that far. I never had a play game seven Exactly,

they when there's like five or six Most of the

time. So yeah, that was cool. It was a neat little

show. Highly recommended if you're into sports

docs or if you're a sports fan at all. So you

watched that actually on Netflix or was that

just on regular TV? That was on ESPN Channel.

It was on cable. They were playing the 30 for

30 movies and stuff. So it should be on Netflix

soon because they seem to put all the 30 for

30s eventually on Netflix. Yeah, and to be honest,

they're probably going to keep playing it for

a while on ESPN. Wait, hold on, ESPN replaying

the same thing over and over again? I don't know

if that's ever happened before. Crazy, right?

Yeah, they're kind of ridiculous with that. But

at least, you know, if anybody wants to watch

it, you get a good chance to watch it. Cool,

cool. And then that sort of leads into the second

one I watched. You know, not really as related,

but kind of took me back to a time in basketball

that I remember. And this particular documentary

was called This Magic Moment. And I watched that

too. Not that long ago. Yeah. And these actually,

I should mention both of these just came out

this year. I believe one was in April and one

was in May. So these are fairly new from this

year. So this one was called This Magic Moment.

It was about the Orlando Magic team of the 1990s.

particularly kind of like the mid 1990s. Obviously

Shaquille O 'Neal, Shaq, Penny Hardaway they

drafted later on and they really built a solid

strong team there and that team really became

like huge for basketball. I know like you know

Jordan sort of propelled the popularity of basketball

Well, really, I think it kind of started with

Magic Johnson and the Lakers and stuff. But Jordan

obviously took it to another level. And then

in the 90s, I think really it's this magic team

that sort of brought a lot of young fans into

basketball, too, because I remember even growing

up as a kid, I remember seeing a lot of kids

with like Orlando Magic stuff, you know, like

everyone. They're a fan and like everyone loves

Shaq because he was like the newest thing, you

know, like the seven foot two guy that could

just like. Break down the backboard and break

the glass He had like his own action figure like

it would came with him with like a blip backboard

that you can like smack It was like smash. Yeah,

there's a button you could push and it would

like really would like break and come down And

then he had a member his own soda with the what

was it called? Somebody the the big something

I forget It was just like it was like a liter

of Pepsi that you would buy by itself because

it was Was it the diesel because I know that

was his nickname too. No, it was something it

was I forget what it was called the big splat.

I forget but it was a It was I remember getting

one as a kid because it's like, oh that's a that's

uh, what shack drank and I remember Uh, I would

go down and walk down the cvs and buy it Uh,

because it was i'm like I didn't I drink like

a quarter of this. I don't know why I bought

this but you know And yeah, that was I was a

huge in the magic. I think even had an anthony

hardy I had an Anthony Hardaway poster and all

that good stuff. So. Yeah, yeah, they they were

huge and it was it was kind of really reached

like beyond basketball into like pop culture

and things like that. I mentioned, like, I think

they they drafted Shaq first. They had him for

I don't know if it was a year or two or something

like that. And then they then they end up actually

know it was the very next year because I think

they got two number one picks in a row in the

draft lottery, which was like crazy and uh The

second year they ended up drafting penny hardaway

and uh, who was like pretty much the best player

in that class Well, didn't they draft? What's

his name? Oh the guy they ended up trading for

hard away didn't they because they got the other

center. Uh, he played for the heat Along the

morning didn't they draft him and then trade

for hard away? Um, no, they they drafted hard

away Um as much as I can remember, um I'm not

sure if morning was after that or before that.

But I remember them talking about drafting Hardaway.

It was kind of like it was Shaq's team and they

brought Hardaway in, but he sort of realized

that he needed this guy to get to where he wanted

to be, get to the championship. Right as they

were building his team, the Bulls had just...

Completed their first three Pete they won three

championships in a row and this was right at

the time where Jordan kind of retired and went

over to baseball for two years, so You have you

know sort of the Bulls taking a step back and

then the Magic taking a leap forward and They

were really good. They were pretty much the cream

of the crop in the NBA Eastern Conference at

that time and They ended up making it to the

finals, but they lost to the Houston Rockets.

And the Rockets won the two titles during that

time that Jordan was off. So they lost to the

Rockets that year. They come back the next year

thinking they're going to be stronger than ever,

but that's the year that Jordan returned. And

then the Bulls won three more championships in

a row. So the Magic, you know, as good of a team

as they built, they never got to win their championship,

which is pretty crazy. We talk about like, you

know, one of the better teams that just sort

of like never got over the hump. They were never

able to win it. Um, and then obviously I think

after that Shaq sort of made the decision because

there was some, there was some heat that was

sort of made up, but like, there was a little

bit of controversy over like whose team it was,

which I feel is like weird because it's kind

of like selfish that they couldn't get along

at the time, but People were saying, well, is

it Hardaway's team or is it Shaq's team? And

I guess Shaq was saying he sort of made the mistake

of assuming how Penny Hardaway felt, that it

was his team. So he's like, I never even talked

to him. He's like, I kind of just made my own

decision. And that's when he went to the Lakers.

And they said, the teammates were saying that

they didn't even know that he went. The Lakers

like he didn't talk to any of them They saw him

on TV holding a Lakers jersey at a press conference

and they're like their jaws at the floor. Yeah

and uh, and then I think Hardaway played for

another year or two and I think he got a knee

injury or something and then he ended up getting

traded to the Phoenix Suns and Um, so the team

just kind of disbanded and they never really

won anything. It's yeah It was it was interesting

because I didn't realize because they have that

series of the The finals against the Rockets

and like they were heavily favored and they came

so close to winning the first game and then Yeah,

was it? uh dianne grant it was missing the foul

shots and then i've never really recovered but

Yeah, so it was I did watch that and then it's

a good good documentary It did bring me back

and I remember like, you know at that era like

I just wanted to go play some NBA Jam. It just

had me in that mode. You may be right about the

hard away thing. I can't remember exactly how

they drafted them, how exactly it worked out.

I remember them getting another high pick in

the lottery, the number one pick again, which

was unheard of. They did get to number ones and

I didn't know if... They got number one and still

went with morning but then ended up trading forget

but I thought they traded to get hard away because

When they got morning, I remember Shaq being

really angry because he was like another center

or something like that, but I could be wrong

It's been it's been like a month since I watched

it and like 20 years since it's actually happened.

So I just want to add to that the Like with the

pop culture thing, do you guys remember the the

little penny? Oh, I remember Little Penny, yeah.

You remember the commercials and stuff? No idea

what you're talking about. Really? Yeah. Oh,

my gosh. I can't believe you don't remember that.

That was like all over the television set, like

back in the 90s. Like every other commercial

is like Little Penny. And it was just basically

this little like this little doll. Sort of like

the little. ventriloquist dolls that Jeff Dunham

has. There's just this little dude, there's a

miniature version of Penny Hardaway and Chris

Rock did the voice and like not many people were

like familiar with Chris Rock yet, but he was

doing the voice of this guy and kind of saying

the things that Penny Hardaway wouldn't say because

he was a really quiet guy, kind of a shy guy.

So, but that I remember those commercials too.

And when I saw it on the show, I'm like, Oh my

gosh, I remember that. Like it totally took me

back there. Yeah, yeah. I remember thinking for

the longest time when I would see Chris Rock,

I'd be like, oh, it's the guy who does Little

Penny. Yeah. I forgot all about that until I

was re -watching it. I'm like, oh, man. Yeah.

Very cool. Very nice. Greg and others, we apologize

for all the sports talk today, but hey, it happens

on occasion. But Greg, I know you watched something

that wasn't sports related. At least I don't

think so. You want to talk about it? Yeah, sure

mine wasn't really sports related there was a

little sports reference to the New York Yankees

yuck I don't watch baseball, but I still know

I don't like the Yankees But I watched Goosebumps

something that should take us back to our childhoods

It kind of did it was a little weird This is

the Goosebumps movie that came out last year

with Jack Black? Yes, correct. Yeah. Jack Black

is still kind of zany himself. It's a little

bit more contained with him. Then there was this

other lady that they brought in, this Aunt Lorraine,

and her character was crazy. I could have done

without her from the word go. She was just annoying,

pain in the ass. Lot of cool references back

to the book and everything, but it's been so

long since I've actually read Goosebumps book

that it made it difficult to keep up with the

references. But overall, it was OK. It was definitely

for people younger than us, but it was it was

an OK watch. The actors the young actors were

actually really great. I thought they they kind

of stole the show Jack Black is just Jack Black

If you've seen him in something else, you're

basically getting what you're getting here So

is it like the old TV show or would take like

a story or is it? No, no, no, no, it's it's they're

bringing all the monsters together. Essentially.

It's The next door neighbor accidentally opens

up one of the books and it releases The Yeti

and then like he kind of knocks over some books

from the shelves and everything And the night

of the living dummy book accidentally gets opened

as well So slappy is that Oh, and it also made

it confusing that Jack Black is acting in the

movie as R .L. Stine. And he's also voicing Slappy,

the main antagonist. So the voices were very

similar between his normal voice and Slappy's

voice. I would have liked to have seen something,

somebody different kind of play Slappy because

it was just too close. It kind of was confusing

like if you weren't paying full attention You

could have got a little bit confused, but otherwise

it was okay CG a bunch of characters I wish we

could have kind of saw more of the characters,

but it was a fun Fun funny sort of horror movie

to go through it was definitely for little kids

though Not that people that actually read the

goosebumps book back in the day. Yeah, so Interesting

that like are all Stein would have those books

and just like not put him in a safe place, you

know He just left them on a shelf they're all

like Individually like locked and stuff, but

it was like why don't you just like bury them

somewhere under? And then afterwards he was manji

game. Yeah kind of which this kind of Felt like

it kind of felt like a whole bunch of other movies

from back in the day, but it It just didn't hold

as much as the other ones for some reason it

didn't grab me as much Was there any reference

to say cheese or die because I was like my favorite

one growing up No, I don't think so Sorry Don't

like I said, I don't remember much and it was

to get the references I kind of went into the

trivia later Which they did kind of a nice little

twist, but I think it was kind of revealed too

early the little twist and Jack Black is like

There are three parts of a book. There's the

beginning the middle and the twist RL Stein is

M Night Shyamalan, so you can relax with the

twist. So it was good. It wasn't the greatest

thing in the world. If you've got younger kids,

they might enjoy it. And so you could watch it

with them. And the parents could make it through

with the kid too. It wasn't like excruciatingly

painful to watch. Like I saw the whole thing.

Yeah, it felt like the Wiggles. It was OK. Yeah.

Yeah, it's not the Wiggles. Any sort of like

was there any seriousness to this role by Jack

Black or was it kind of like goofy and zany?

It wasn't zany there were some like serious moments,

but you get Like the Jack Blackness still comes

out during those serious moments So that's what

I was gonna ask like how did how did he do in

a more serious role? I can't see him like that.

I guess. Yeah, he wasn't like flapping his arms

around like super crazy or anything. It was,

it was definitely a more subdued, uh, Jack Bla,

but there was still the Jack, uh, black isms

in there. Cause, uh, the one kid he's, he comes

to the town and he's not RL Stein. He's, um,

it was RL something else. That was the last name.

And so the kids like trying to say, Oh, you're

RL Stein. And he's like, no, I'm not RL Stein.

The kids like oh are all Stein's books are terrible

Stephen King is definitely better than RL Stein

RL Stein is just a Stephen King knockoff and

Jack Black turns around he's like Let me tell

you about Steve Steve King Steve King It's not

has not sold as many books as I have And like,

so you get like this whole Steve King and like

making his name very proper. It felt very Jack

Black to like, yeah, that's that's a movie that

Jack Black would make in a movie. Yeah, he's

done. Well, I have nothing super serious. Nothing

I think of as something like Bernie, which is

also go back to the movie I talked about, directed

by Richard Lanclater, which I think he's. Bernie

is actually is is one of his better roles. I

think Bernie is is better than Goosebumps Yeah,

I like them a lot in School of Rock. I haven't

seen that surprising which was also directed

by Richard Linklater But I have not seen school.

Yeah a School of Rock is is is pretty good. Yeah

School of Rock is better than Goosebumps Welcome

to better than Goosebumps I'm getting the hierarchy

down now for like where that is All right. Well

anything else before we take a quick break and

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right, and welcome back. And yes, today, inspired

by our, you know, with everything going on in

the NBA draft. And, you know, it's about about

that time again. We're going to be doing the

sitcom drafts if you never listened to one of

our drafts before it's pretty simple or go around

Starting with this time Chuck will be going first

then Greg then myself Picking a character out

of something in this case sitcom. So any character

that was any any sitcom We're gonna have five

rounds and we once a character is picked that

character is gone and off the board at the end

once we have collected our entire team we will

then explain what our sitcom using all those

characters would be what would be called you

know what would be called and what the premise

of it would be and then at geocastreader .com

i'll be putting up a post geocastreader .com

will be putting up a poll that you can vote in

to declare which sitcom and who truly won the

sitcom draft of 2016 so Chuck, you're kicking

us off. You have the first pick in the draft.

You are the 76ers of this draft. I apologize.

I guess that's an insult. No one's that bad.

But who are you going with with your first pick

of the draft? OK. I have a lot to pick from,

obviously. We're pulling from the entirety of

TV land and all the old and new TV shows. But

I think I'm going to go with something that uh

I would be afraid of someone else picking um

and I don't think many of my other characters

have that threat so um I am going to select the

only reason I think Greg would be the one to

take this so if he's not it'd be safe but I'm

gonna select Colonel Sherman Potter from Mesh

Going old school right after I did not pick him.

He's not even on my list, but I know you like

mash I was afraid that you might be there there

was a mash character on my list of characters

Yeah, so if I am going to play plead ignorant

with with this one who who exactly who plays

that actor in their show? Well, you caught me

at a loss. I wasn't Alan Alda or anything like

that. No, it's it's Harry Morgan Okay. Yes. Yes.

Yeah, Alan Alda was a Hawkeye Pierce Yeah, this

guy's Harry Morgan. He was in some other stuff,

but obviously... Aftermash? Well, he was actually

in a... What's the one old -time cop show? Oh,

um... Dragnet? Dragnet, yeah. Yeah, he was in

that. He was also in a couple Western movies.

There's the one that my dad likes to watch. It's

a comedy with... Oh, what's his name? He was

in that crappy... no no maverick maverick think

maverick oh yeah yeah tom cruise no maverick

as in uh the western movie maverick or the tv

show back in the day maverick the guy he just

passed away recently yeah he was in that crappy

Yes. Now I forget what the hell we were even

talking about. All we do is get on tangents.

All right. So again, who did you pick for your

first pick, Greg or Chuck? I picked the character

of Colonel Sherman Potter from MASH. All right.

So we got him off the board, going old school

to start off with. So that's interesting. All

right, so Greg, it's moving on to you. You have

Sherman Potter off the board, actually from one

of your favorite TV shows. But who are you going

with with your first pick? I'm going with kind

of a surprise tactic here. And I am going with.

Yeah, I should probably pick him first. I am

going with Mork from Ork. Robin Williams played

Mork from the TV show Mork and Mindy. Wow. I

was not expecting that is. Wow. Starting out

off world here. Yeah, man. We're going old school

gold I feel weird cuz I'm gonna go much newer

school and I have See, I'm looking at two characters

that are from two shows. I know you someone else

watches So I have a feeling they might be taken

so I'm gonna go though with my first one Coming

from one of my favorite TV shows in the office,

and I'm actually gonna go with Dwight Schrute

really Wow, I did not I did not expect that did

I screw you up majorly No, he was kind of my

protagonist in this whole thing. I'll have to

think it over keep going All right Well a good

thing I went with him because I thought of anyone

that would because I know you let's watch the

office as well So I'm gonna go with white fruit

as my first pick. Oh, man. All right How does

that happen? You know, it's like a trillion different

TV shows yet. We still have somehow pick Choices

from one another. All right Great minds great

minds. All right, great Chuck bringing you back

over to you We're gonna we're not doing the snake

draft where I do twice to make it easier We're

just gonna go from you know gonna do it the old

NFL style So bringing you back to you for the

second round who are you picking for your second

pick? second pick is another The classic show

that probably more people have seen It's a little

more I guess a little more new school, you would

call it. But, um, this is from not, I wouldn't

say this is really one of my favorite, uh, say

comes honestly, but this, this character in particular

fits into what I want to do. Um, and I do the

intro, the show and the show is that 70 show

and the character I'm going to select is Red

Foreman. Really? Wow. Interesting. Yes. Again

and not an unexpected choice. I'm surprised.

I was you know, I thought at least one character

from home improvement would be taken by now So

you keep keeping you on your toes there, you

know, you keep you guessing so yeah, I man remember

that 70 sure that's a sure like I liked but I

almost forget all about that for some reason

but yeah, I Like I watched it from time to time

Like I said, I'm not a huge fan of it at all.

Like there's there's actually some parts about

I really Don't care for and but once a little

great while see it on I'm gonna watch it But

I've always liked the character a red form and

I thought he was pretty interesting. So played

by Kurt would Smith he was in some other movies

I think most notably the original RoboCop movie,

but he was great in that he was a great villain.

He was awesome Yes, he was actually he was really

good. Nice. Nice. All right So he is off the

board now Greg moving back over to you. I've

always already stolen Dwight truth for me. Are

you going to steal somebody from me? Hopefully.

No, probably not. I'm going to go with the tick.

Damn it. By the action of the tick. Yeah, I figured

you wouldn't pick that. I forget the guy that

plays it, but he's the guy that deep voice. He

voices a lot of stuff. He sees on family guy.

How's it going, Peter? And so I am picking the

tick that's it's an awesome show by the way if

you haven't seen it It's it was only on for like

a season season and a half something like that.

They're bringing it back But with different people

which is kind of disappointing. Yeah It is but

check out the original stuff. It's really good.

That's that's the same guy. It was Like you mentioned

he does the gang family guy, but he was also

on Seinfeld and a couple of things. Yes. Thank

you Patrick Yeah named podcast today. All right.

Well, I was actually kind of scared You might

take this guy cuz I I know I know you watch the

show as well if I'm not mistaken It's kind of

related to the office and it's very you know,

similar creators similar format So I have Dwight

Trute and I go with you knows an actor that we

love here with Chris Pratt and gonna go with

Andy draw Dwyer But more specifically his alter

ego Burt Macklin Did I take another one from

you you didn't I just I was curious, because

one of these weeks we had to do another homework

episode and I'm going to try to get Chuck to

watch Parks and Rec, because I think he might

like it. The first season... Yes, I think I will

too, actually. I got to power through the first

season, but after that I think it gets quite

good. Especially once... Nick Offerman? Not Nick

Offerman, but man, it's like this is the worst

naming podcast ever. We come Adam Scott which

Adam Scott comes. I think it in Rob Lowe. It

gets a lot better They come in like season. Is

it is it like direct TV Rob Lowe or the cable?

I think it's which one's better. Is it direct

TV is a bit the better one. So yeah Yeah, I would

go with our TV. So Chuck you so far you have

a character from mash and I already forget his

name Sherman Potter and you also have read Foreman

from that 70s show. I I'm really interested with

what's going next two unexpected choices you

go unexpected for your third choice well this

one would probably be uh i guess a little bit

unexpected but i'm sure you guys were expecting

me to pick this this actor of anyway the actor

is of course tim allen but it's not the character

of tim taylor from home improvement um it's actually

from another of his shows that i'm a huge fan

of called last man standing and his his character's

name in that show is mike baxter Ah, the curveball,

the infamous curveball. Yes. Don't get me wrong,

Homebrewman's my favorite comedy show of all

time. But what I'm trying to do here, this fits

in a little bit better in the, this is, I think

he's kind of like a little bit more, I don't

know what you would call it. Like he's a little

bit more sassy and like quick witted in this

newer show. And I like some of the like quick

wit jokes that he comes off with and stuff like

that. And he interacts with other characters

really well. So. Interesting. All right. I have

never seen last man standing, but I've heard

good things. I have my parents like it. They

say it's too political though Yeah, but I like

where it's coming from though, so I'd love it

All right, so we're going back over to Greg you

have the tick and you have who was your first

pick? I forget already Mark from work. You have

more from work. Of course Robin Williams works

more in the tick. Who you going with you with

your third choice? Third choice, I am going Herman

Munster from the Munsters. Wow, Herman Munster

from the Munsters. Well, there you go. I have

an interesting, that's a, I'm curious. Wow. We'll

see where that leads out. We'll see where that

leads. So I'm going to go with, so we haven't

had any ladies chosen. It's been all guys. I'm

actually going to change that up and I'm just

going to go from a show. I don't think you guys

watch, but I would recommend it's actually. quite

good and i didn't have much expectations for

when i came out but actually enjoyed quite a

bit it's probably i know there's a lot of companies

i watch right now but tends to be the one i enjoy

the most and it's from brooklyn nine nine and

i want to go with the character of eric amy san

diego played by melissa for men are all have

been pronouncing that wrong but a uh... greg

i think he wouldn't enjoy her and even if you

would say didn't watch the show uh... but she's

quite funny she's more of a straight -laced character

she's you know in the The typical character of

like she has to do everything by the book She

wants to use like the straight -a student that

needs to impress the teacher, but she doesn't

she does a really good job of it She's quite

funny And it's actually quite an interesting

character. So I want to go with her for my third

choice gonna kind of Yeah, go a little different

directions in my last year But I feel like I'm

going much more old new school than you guys

are I did not and I'm not diving as deep But

with that truck you're gonna dive in even deeper

with your fourth choice I'm going to reel it

back a little bit and go a newer show, a much

newer show, more recent. That's probably not

a huge show, but at least people should recognize

the name of it. And the character I'm going to

select, number four, is Carl McMillan from Mike

and Molly. Again, a show I've never watched.

I've never watched it either. This is a great

show. I'd highly recommend this show. Obviously

you have Melissa McCarthy. plays the wife of

the other guy, Mike Biggs. Well, that's the character's

name, Mike Biggs. And this character that I'm

picking, Carl McMillan, is actually his partner.

They're cops in the city of Chicago. And this

is his partner. And I feel like I don't want

to have a show full of... all lead characters.

I need some great supporting characters. And

this guy's one of the greatest supporting cast

members I've ever seen. He just adds incredible

comedy to the show. He's kind of a goof, like

he's smart and everything, but he's got very,

you know, very dry humor. He's kind of quick

-witted. He's got some... Crafty remarks and

stuff like that and little digs that he he throws

at the other guy and stuff like that But they

really get along great and everything so he's

like a tremendous supporting character one of

honestly one of the best that I've Probably seen

and that show actually has a lot of great supporting

characters believe it or not The father -in -law

on the show is pretty hilarious. He plays Molly's

stepfather and he's got this like really kind

of thick Chicago accent and stuff and it's the

guys like hilarious I would highly recommend

And Mike and Molly if you have never seen it,

I will definitely I don't think it's like streaming

on any sir Like I would be more prompted if it

was like on Netflix or Amazon or something like

that on Hulu Maybe it is I haven't really looked

very cool. So a little bit more new school. So

I'm not I'm not the only person All right, Greg

moving on over to you and I'm Curious what character

or creature you're going with next Next I am

going with I'll go with Somebody did that I didn't

have picked to replace Dwight True, and I guess

I'll go with elf Wow Dwight True and elf so I'm

curious what role that was gonna be playing that

is interesting I used to love elf when I was

a kid me too. I was an elf fan But I had the

stuffed doll and everything like though. I had

a little stuffed doll too. Yeah, and I was like

this was like a Little bit bigger. It was like

two or three feet tall like the actual size or

whatever and I used to like carry that thing

everywhere I remember was always being freaked

out there when you would see his legs. It's something

about it seemed weird. Yeah Well, actually just

recently the the actor that was in the costume

for Alf just passed away. Oh really? Yeah I think

it was about a week or two ago. And the funny

thing was, for so many years, I always thought

it was a puppet. I had no idea there was a guy

in the suit. The entire time? Yeah. And the reason

I thought that, because he was always behind

a table or a countertop or something. So I'm

like, oh, it's just a puppet. Because it's the

perfect hiding thing to hide the person that's

controlling him. But there actually was a guy

in there, I guess. And he was... once touted

as the shortest man on earth, I think he was

two foot nine. Yes. And he was he was in the

soup. But unfortunately, he passed away recently.

I think he was like in his seventies, like 76

years old or something. Oh, wow. Man, I had no

idea. I thought it was a puppet the entire time.

That's weird. Yeah. Yes. Interesting. Alright,

wow going with elf. I didn't try to bring that

back for a short period of time, too Yeah, they're

they're always trying to bring it back. There's

one. There's like a movie wasn't there Greg like

a made -for -tv movie or something. I Don't remember.

I know there was like a cartoon with elf and

then there was a cartoon little movie with him

and like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and

it was like a PSA after After school special

kind of thing. Yes, there's 1996 project elf

TV movie Yes, that's what I thought and I think

he if I'm not mistaken The government finally

finds out about him and I think they like capture

him and try to like do tests on them and stuff

like that Yeah, it's kind of weird. All right,

well Alf going next. All right my next pick.

So I have Dwight Schrute. I have Andy Dwyer I

have Amy santiago from brooklyn 99 from a number

four gonna go with another current show. I actually

I guess has just recently ended You know six

seasons in a movie or seven seasons in the movie

going with one of my favorite characters from

community Who's kind of come on almost like a

geek icon in the last few years and that's Obed

from community Which is I don't think I sure

you guys have watched if I'm not mistaken No,

but I would watch it for Alison Brie. There you

go Alison Brie and then you have Julian Jacobs

as well. So, yep. I have no idea what you guys

are talking about. It was like me during the

basketball talk. I know I was picturing you doing

random things during that whole basketball. I

was picturing you like with the mic on mute,

like trimming your fingernails and like doing

random things. I was sketching the entire time.

That's fun. All right, very nice. All right moving

up. This is the lot while we were going through

this quite quick So that was round four. This

is around five our last pick. This is kind of

where things come together. Maybe perhaps we'll

see You have one more choice chuck you have One

more person left On your show who you're gonna

go with well, I am going to drop an absolute

bomb here I'm telling you. Nobody's gonna see

this coming. This is gonna be like a Drop the

mic moment, walk away. You guys are not going

to see this coming. My fifth and final selection

for my character is Sophia Petrillo from The

Golden Girls. Really? Wow. Yes. Man, not Bea

Arthur? Come on. No. I think Estelle Getty stole

the show on Golden Girls there. If you're not

familiar with that, she was the the oldest one

that played Dorothy's mother. She was always

very sassy and had the best comebacks and everything

and always busting chops on all the other characters.

She was hilarious. I always thought not that

I'm a huge Golden Girls fan, but I've seen a

few episodes and I always thought her character

was hilarious. I thought she did an awesome job

with it and she was one of my favorite. Female

comedic actors and she wasn't even the oldest

one in real life, right? She was like younger

than some of the other people if I'm not mistaken

Um, I'm not sure she was up there. Yeah, she

I know she was like I think she was born in like

1923 or something. She's yeah Wow, that is that

is a drop -the -mic moment and but just make

sure you don't break a hip while doing it I guess

Thank you for being a friend. All right. Well,

well last time Greg, I jokingly said creature,

but then you went out. So I guess maybe what

character or creature are you going with this

to this pick for your last pick? I am going with,

did I do that? Uh, with Steve Urkel from Family

Matters. You say that, but I'm going to go with

Balke from Perfect Strangers. Interesting. Well,

I've gone no new school the entire time, you

know rather newer shows that have been recent

and I'm actually gonna I'm gonna continue that

I'm gonna I'm gonna finish that off with another

show that we've talked a lot about on this podcast

a few times and I think we actually got Chuck

to watch a few episodes and that's up from the

league and I'm gonna go with taco from the league

Well, maybe one of the most random characters

of all time so That is my team. So now that we

have our five characters, the question is, well,

what does that mean? It's one thing to put all

these characters together. What type of show

are we going to create out of it? So, Chuck,

I'm going to start with you. And I think I have

an idea, but I'm not certain. What exactly are

your five characters going to be doing on your

sitcom? Well, my show is going to be sort of

an outdoorsy based show. Could be something a

little bit similar to Parks and Recs. I'm not

entirely familiar with that show, but also very

similar to Last Man Standing, where they're sort

of very into outdoorsy stuff, fishing and stuff

like that. I guess the basic premise of my show

and the way the characters are laid out. I'm

going to have Mike Baxter, who is the Tim Allen

character. Him and Red Foreman are... best friends

that go way back. They went to school together

or what have you. And they love to go fishing

together and hang out at the local diner. And

they always have a couple of fishing partners

with them. Colonel Potter is actually Mike Baxter's

father in the show. He's much older, I think

age would fit well. So he's kind of his like,

you know, kind of wise older, you know, upbeat

sort of wisecracking father. And as Greg knows,

Colonel Potter always had some terrific phrases

and sayings and stuff like that and a lot of

like old timey sayings. And most of them were

pretty funny. So I think that would work like

perfectly in there to kind of have like some

dad wisdom with like these old time sayings and

stuff like that. So he's in there as that. And

then I have Carl from Mike and Molly. I have

him actually As a Red Foreman son -in -law that

he sort of like get alongs Gets along with but

in my mind there has to be someone there for

Red Red Foreman to call a dumbass so If you if

you watch that 70s show, you know, he's always

calling people a dumbass Eric and all of his

friends and stuff. So I think Carl from Mike

and Molly the way the way he acts he's different

Only a stand -up guy is a good guy at heart and

I feel like he would get along with him But he

does a lot of like goofy stuff like, you know,

he can't find a girlfriend He can't find a house

and stuff like that in Mike and Molly so he's

always doing these like weird things to sort

of to sort of like Make himself look more appealing

or make himself more available and things like

that Like he kind of has these like crazy like

ideas and schemes and stuff and I feel like that

would be some good stuff for for Foreman to kind

of make fun of and call him a dumbass and stuff

like that. And then finally, I think a character

that would kind of like be a great supporting

character as well as Sophia from Golden Girls.

And I have her as sort of in a dual role as the

owner of the diner they like to go to and also

the owner of the tackle shop that they go to

before fishing and stuff like that. And I think

her personality, just the way it was in Golden

Girls, just like constantly, you know, sassy

and busting on people, like, you know, pretty

much never serious, you know, like always there

with like some sort of comment to like basically

bust someone's ass, you know, like to just kind

of like get to dig in at them, just kind of make

fun of them, stuff like that. I think honestly

that would mix perfectly with Foreman's personality

they could kind of jive back and forth a little

bit and also I think with the with the a little

bit of similarity in age there with uh with Colonel

Potter I think they could kind of have like a

little bit of a like a an interesting dynamic

going back and they're kind of like uh you know

busting on each other maybe like bordering on

the line of like flirty sort of which would kind

of be which is always kind of I feel like sort

of a cutesy type of thing if you see like old

people kind of uh talking like interacting like

that being a little flirty like make sure we

don't cross over the line into creepy or anything

but or you never want to get creepy yeah yeah

right but i think those uh two characters would

interact really well i think you know potter

and sofia and i think also foreman and sofia

so i just think like i have a really good uh

mix of characters for what i was looking to do

and uh I think they could all sort of feed off

of each other and actually work really well.

Like I mentioned before, if I were to rank my

favorite sitcom characters, they would be nowhere

near this list. You know what I mean? But to

be honest, like if I was putting something together

like this, these all just kind of made sense

to me and fit really well together with taking

into account the character's personality and

the actor's talents and things like that. So

I guess. I'm not sure of a title. I didn't really

come up with a title, but maybe you could come

up with a later on or something, but something

catchy. Something catchy. There you go. That's

it. Because it's a fishing show, something catchy.

Right. There you go, Dan. You're on top of things.

Perfect. All right. So interesting. I think that

does work out pretty well. That's the key because

you can get A -list characters from sitcoms,

but they all don't really, you know, you can't

have, like you said, you can't have all... None

every tribe can I forget the saying basically

not everyone can be the main characters I think

it makes sense to try to fit it out the way it

did very cool too many chiefs not enough Indians

there you go That's what I was going for. Yeah.

Yeah Perfect. All right, Greg. I am I am really

intrigued about what you're doing here cuz uh

No with your alf and your ticks and you know

your your monsters. I am curious. What exactly

what show are you creating? I am creating a very

geeky show since this is a geek podcast. I've

got a geek comedy show going on Alf has gone

crazy and is trying to take over the world and

his his his Igor to his dr. Frankenstein is Urkel.

He's kind of enslaved Urkel to help him take

over the world. But Mork from Ork is not having

any of it as he forms his own superpower team

with the very strong Tick and very strong Herman

Munster along the way. So a lot of hijinks are

going. You've got the two intelligent characters

of Mork from Ork and Alf, both aliens going at

it, but both very intelligent. If Mork's not

as little goofy. But then you've got Urkel that's

kind of messing things up for Alf all the time.

He's like, did I do that? And you got your two

strong guys that are freaking hilarious, kind

of dopey, along with Mork. So they're kind of

like craziness going on. But Alf is trying to

grab command, eat all the cats, and take over

the world. Man, I would love to see an evil Alf.

That'd be amazing. That'd be good. That would

be interesting. Do you have a do you have a title

now or do you also go? I I didn't know we needed

a title Sorry, we didn't need a title just you

know, if you had one, you know, I did I didn't

have one No, I didn't know we needed one interesting.

All right. Well My I feel not nearly as creative

as what you guys did So my show actually surrounded

goes based upon kind of starts with the character

of Amy Santiago as I mentioned she comes from

the character the show Brooklyn 99 and In that,

she plays very straight -laced. Officer, but

in this show the idea is for whatever reason

she actually gets kicked off the force She's

no longer a police officer, but she still wants

to fight crime in her own way So she puts out

an ad in the newspaper or online asking, you

know to try to create her own Basically, you

know neighborhood watch or citizens group to

help fight crime in their own way And of course

who another other than shows up then you have

Burt Macklin himself of Andy Dwyer because he

is takes charge he likes to be that hero he sees

the opportunity and wants to do that who else

but Dwight Schrute a volunteer sheriff or a volunteer

police officer at the local station already again

another opportunity he's a type of character

who likes to try to you know basically you know

he loves the opportunity for any authority whatsoever

so he sees he's the chance of doing this and

Abed from community for those that don't know

occasionally he also plays He was the cosplay

as Batman dressed up as Batman do the voice and

fight crime So you have him joining in as his

Batman character or being a very meta character

very geek character that's we're gonna get a

lot of your geek jokes from and then finishing

off is taco from the league who just shows up

because He's taco, you know, he's he's the wild

card who almost is a pseudo Sherlock Holmes with

all the crazy stuff he can actually do in his

like Homeless net his homeless network of people

that he has and all the information. He's like

the voice on the street So they've they come

and what I basically be calling it would be a

neighborhood or sorry a citizens police force

would be the name of it citizens police force

and I think it'd be interesting to you have Amy

Santiago is kind of your leader, but you know,

you have Dwight Schrute always trying to try

to good over her. You would have Dwight Schrute

and Andy Dwyer. There would be a partner group

with them. And I would love to see some conversations

between, you know, those two characters. It'd

be a different, you know, a different dynamic

than the dynamic of like someone like Jim from

The Office and Dwight because, you know, they're

more in the level playing field and they can

try to get along and they're almost, you know,

they're similar but very different. Andy Dwyer

is much more positive and Dwight's Much more

negative, but he's smarter in some way. So But

I think there'd be some interesting dynamic there

Then also talk hill with odd bed who are two

of the most random characters in the history

TV Just they would be talking in two different

languages But it might be actually kind of funny

to see them trying to interact with one another

and I think you're you need someone who's straight

-laced You're not straight lace, but your straight

man your straight woman who was the one that

they can bounce joke off of the person who's

the the foundation of reality, who would be Amy

Santiago. So it would also be a woman led show

too. She would be like the, the, the linchpin

of it. You know, she'd be the one who would be

leading the charge with this crazy band. It's

a brand of people. So, uh, it would be almost

like, uh, imagine like a TV version of police

academy, but, uh, a little bit, not a slapstick,

a little bit more, uh, fighting fine tuned in

that, but that'd be my idea. Again, it'd be,

uh, citizens police force. Or yeah, I don't know.

And less crazy noises and voices and stuff. Yeah,

I know. What was that guy's name? Michael Wilson?

Yes, yes. You might get Michael Scott to the

guest star and do his impression of Michael Wilson.

Right. That would work out well. Yeah, you could

have a lot of people guest star. There's a lot

of different ways I want to go with it, but I

felt like those... Mike, the characters that

I chose, minus Tako, all have this desire to

be the hero of some sort, or fight crime, or

be something. So I figured they would all work

together as a force fighting for the good, even

if it is petty crime, that you would stop it

for a neighborhood watch. I thought it would

also be a good situation where you could come

up with new stories each week that would help

keep it from being stale. I think I came up with

a title for mine. Oh, yeah. Just going to keep

it short and simple. People can remember. I'm

just going to call it casters. Nice there you

go, and it works for this this episode because

that's what we're doing. We are casting Right

casters very good. So the question is who came

up with the best sitcom and you guys have the

opportunity to vote by going to be castrated

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And I am at Movie Revolt. But that'll be it for

this week. We'll be back next week. Same time,

same channel, same podcast, but for now. This

has been Chuck. This has been Greg Orr, The Tech,

Al Moore, Herman Munster, and Urkel. And this

has been Dan, and we've been talking in circles.

We'll see you next week. I actually thought actually

he crossed my mind He's like a goofy kind of

character but I didn't think he would fit extremely

well with my stuff I did love Family Matters

though that show was freaking awesome I also

had a rando of Do you guys remember Step by Step?

I do Cody Lambert? Yeah I don't remember. I liked

the blonde on that show, the bitchy blonde. I

thought you were going with the other one in

the middle. No, the dumb one? No. Was Cody the

guy with the surfer dialect? Yeah. Yeah, dude.

What's going on? Yeah. All right. He was in the

van. All memories. At a local television studio.

Hey guys, thanks for coming. Connor and I really

appreciate it. Right, Connor? No problem, this

should be fun. Yeah, I've never been at a taping

for a kids show before. Who is everyone here

to see? Fuzzy Bear! Fuzzy Bear! That's right!

Give it up for Fuzzy Bear and Friends! Hi boys

and girls! Welcome to Fuzzy Bear and Friends!

Uh oh, our friend Missy Kitty is sad. She lost

her favorite pair of sunglasses. Can you help

us find them? Yeah! They're behind the cookie

jar! They're behind the cookie jar! Uh, where?

Over here? Behind the cookie jar! Geez, Greg,

relax. Give the kids a chance. There they are!

Thanks, boys and girls! You're welcome! Here

you are, Missy Kitty. Gee, thanks! Now I'm almost

ready to go to the beach with my friends. Well,

what else do you need? I'm missing a beach ball

in the picnic basket. I think our friends can

help us find that. Right, everyone? Yeah! Sure!

Greg, please stop. What? I'm helping. Uh, you're

not. The ball is under the table and the basket

is on top of the refrigerator. No, the refrigerator!

Uh, thank you very much, young fella. Ah, screw

this. Now boys and girls we're introducing a

couple of new friends to the neighborhood Security

guard Jason and security card Todd say hi to

our new friends Sir you're gonna have to come

with us What what me? Yes, sir I'm just helping

Hey Connor, wanna go get your picture taken with

Fuzzy Bear when he's done beating up Uncle Greg?