Episodes

  • Special: This Is The End

    Special: This Is The End
    May 13 2024
    It's the last episode ever! Boo hoo, etc!

    We invited three of our favorite contestants back for one last go. Monty shows up in a top hat. Larra wore three tiaras. Ilan was there too. In this special episode we show you how the sausage was made with a largely unedited and unadorned episode. Taylor sings! Dan scores! Dave is just happy he didn't have to properly edit this one! Thank you all for listening over the years, it's been a fun ride and we all learned a lot about The Thin Man, and really isn't that what's it all about?

    NOTES

    💼 Glowing Briefcase is a WIP daily online pop culture quiz thingee we have been working on for a bit. If you'd like to get in on the next beta or the launch please drop us your email address in our notification form.

    🦋 Ilan is on Bluesky

    🐘 Ilan is on Mastodon

    🤖 Monty can be heard on the Incomparable Network

    🎥 And on Monty and Rhias vs Movies

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • S10.E13: Good Night Oppy

    S10.E13: Good Night Oppy
    Apr 29 2024
    Doo doo DOO doo. Doo doo DOO doo doo. Doo doo DOO doo. Doo doo DOO doo doo doo DOO doo doo DOO doo doo DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOOOOOOOOO do do do do DOOOOOOOO!

    It’s the final countdown here in season ten! Tripp, Bonnie, and Paul have arrived to see which will become the tenth season’s super-mondo champion of champions, but only the ninth person to bear that distinction, thanks to Ilan "Glover Cleveland" Muskat. Still, for our season finale, we’ve got a patented* silly title mash-up game to honor our most recent Oscar best picture winner, plus a game that combines movies AND TV together in a way only TGAPCQS knows how. Plus a lightning round!

    NOTES

    🎧 Tripp hosts the “Tripp Through Comedy” podcast.

    🤔 Paul can be found at QuizFix

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    45 mins
  • S10.E12: The First Annual Fantasy Poseidon Adventure Team Draft

    S10.E12: The First Annual Fantasy Poseidon Adventure Team Draft
    Apr 15 2024
    In this, the last playoff round of season ten, we challenge Eleanor, Steve, and Paul to create new pope culture properties via adding an E to ones that already exist. It’s very silly, and Dan Cassino is unsurprisingly very proud of how silly it is. Then in round two, it’s boats! I mean, who cares? And then, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau show up for an Enlightening Round! What a world! Can you tell Taylor has been rewatching Lost recently?

    NOTES

    🦋 Steve is on the less bad website, BlueSky

    🥌 ‌And encourages you all to try curling

    🤔 Paul can be found at QuizFix

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    46 mins
  • S10.E11: Bathroom Reading

    S10.E11: Bathroom Reading
    Apr 1 2024
    HEYYYYYY, the Diceman Cometh to The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show this week, and the Diceman bringeth all kinds of trivia for Eric, Cate, and Bonnie. First we’ll shoehorn Andrew Dice Clay into other pop culture properties, before a VERY uppity round two about movies that started life as pieces in The New Yorker. Some wild swings in content this week, lemme tell ya. And of course, our customary lightning round. Hickory Dickory Dock!

    NOTES

    📚 Cate encourages you to support local libraries and get out the vote!

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    50 mins
  • S10.E10: Subjected to Predication

    S10.E10: Subjected to Predication
    Mar 18 2024
    The playoffs have arrived! Previous winners Tripp, Levi, and Conor grab their subjects and verbs and get grammatical as they are challenged to name actors and musicians whose names are complete sentences. THEN, they’ll take a tripp through time as they trace the development of movies adapted from musicals adapted from movies (that may also be adapted from novels or real life or based on prizes Cracker Jack boxes). And it wouldn’t be an episode of TGAPCQS without a lightning round! So guess what: there’s a lightning round!

    NOTES
    🫥 Dan forgot to do show notes.

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    44 mins
  • S10.E09: Where You Going?

    S10.E09: Where You Going?
    Mar 4 2024
    Look here, film snobs. Perhaps you’ve already looked ahead to round two and seen that the topic is pop culture depictions of the afterlife. I’m gonna disappoint you right now and tell you that we do not get to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 1999 masterpiece After Life. That’s just a thing you’ll have to contend with as you trudge through the lowbrow muck we’ve provided you. But it makes for a great game nonetheless! Adam, Chloe, and Paul have a great time talking piracy, jamming out to songs sung by characters in cars, and (you guessed it) exploring pop culture depictions of what happens after we die. Despite all that, this episode is not morbid at all, and hews to the light tone you’ve come to expect of this show by this point.

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    NOTES

    ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

    🎓 Paul can be found at QuizFix

    📖 And can be heard on the Shall We Compare Thee? podcast

    📸 Chloe is on Instagram

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    54 mins
  • S10.E08: Dude, Where's My Tár?

    S10.E08: Dude, Where's My Tár?
    Feb 19 2024
    Lydia, oh Lydia, oh have you met Lydia?

    Lydia, the round one topic!

    Though she’s done with her recitals,

    Her name fits in other titles.

    Lydia, oh Lydia, the subject of trivia;

    Less so once we hit round two.

    Benito and Bonnie and Sean will see

    Just how gosh darn silly this game show can be

    With Lightning Round topics you’ll find in round three!

    Cov’ring many types of media!

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    NOTES

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    💰 Bonnie encourages listeners to support abortion access funds

    🤩 Benito has some amazing stuff on his Patreon

    📜 And can be heard on the Apocrypals podcast

    🦋 And has left the Twitters for the Bluesky

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    50 mins
  • S10.E07: Who's Afraid?

    S10.E07: Who's Afraid?
    Feb 5 2024
    But anything can still happen here in…THE LIGHTING ROUND! This week on The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show, John, Conor, and Jeff test their knowledge of properties that start in media res, showing a dramatic moment near the end of the story, before flashing back to the beginning. It’s a tried and true device that works great for hooking people in so they know there’s something exciting coming down the pike. Later, they’ll see how well they remember season-long villains from various TV shows, and then play the lightning round. But you already knew that last part.

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    NOTES

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    ⁉️ Jeff hosts Questionable Company Trivia at Shuffles Board Game Café on Tuesdays at 7.

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    48 mins