S10.E04: The Blue Dog of Happiness

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 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer

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! 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer

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. 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer

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. SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR MORE EPISODES PER MONTH 💰 Join the The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Club and help us hit the next milestone to get more episodes per month. Club members get ad-free episodes, early drops, live zoom trivia events and access to our Discord server! 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 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer

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! SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR MORE EPISODES PER MONTH 💰 Join the The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Club and help us hit the next milestone to get more episodes per month. Club members get ad-free episodes, early drops, live zoom trivia events and access to our Discord server! NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 💰 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 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer

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. SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR MORE EPISODES PER MONTH 💰 Join the The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Club and help us hit the next milestone to get more episodes per month. Club members get ad-free episodes, early drops, live zoom trivia events and access to our Discord server! NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. ⁉️ Jeff hosts Questionable Company Trivia at Shuffles Board Game Café on Tuesdays at 7. 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer

Bleh! It’s me, Dracula! You know, from Dracula 2000? I’m here to tell you about this week’s episode, featuring Anna, Steve, and Derek competing in a game that features so much of me! But none of my actual movies. Which is fine because I’d rather be popping up in The Land Before Time than have to sit through Renfield. Then, I send our players on a cross-national road trip, driving only at night of course. Like Tilda Swinton requesting only night flights in Only Lovers Left Alive. Speaking of which, how has Taylor not asked a million questions over the years about Only Lovers Left Alive. Feels like a Babylonesque “Taylor won’t shut up about this one movie” type of pick. And Tom Hiddelston is just as sexy as William Conrad in it! Anyways, the lightning round is a blood bath, which means I absolutely loved it. SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR MORE EPISODES PER MONTH 💰 Join the The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Club and help us hit the next milestone to get more episodes per month. Club members get ad-free episodes, early drops, live zoom trivia events and access to our Discord server! NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🐦 Derek is on the bad website formerly known as Twitter 📺 Derek can also be found at Super Trashed TV 🌤️ Steve is on the less bad website, BlueSky 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer

Hey Taylor, just putting this placeholder here so you don't forget to write the copy for the episode if you don't do it, I'll just run it through ChatGPT. In a typical episode of The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show, contestants embark on a lively and entertaining journey through the vast landscape of American popular culture. Hosted by a charismatic quizmaster, the show features rounds that challenge participants with a diverse range of questions covering music, movies, television, literature, and more. Contestants showcase their knowledge and quick thinking as they compete in various rounds, such as lightning-fast buzzer rounds and thematic challenges. The atmosphere is filled with laughter, camaraderie, and friendly competition as the contestants strive to prove their expertise in all things pop culture. With each episode, The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show not only tests the contestants' knowledge but also celebrates the vibrant and ever-evolving world of American pop culture, making it a must-watch for trivia enthusiasts and entertainment aficionados alike. In an unexpected twist, the latest episode of The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show concludes with the surprising news that the beloved host, Taylor, has been fired. The revelation adds a dramatic element to the show's usual lighthearted tone, leaving viewers curious about the reasons behind the decision and speculating on who might step into Taylor's shoes for future episodes. As the contestants bid farewell to their charismatic quizmaster, the show's future becomes uncertain, adding an intriguing layer of suspense to this episode of The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show. SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR MORE EPISODES PER MONTH 💰 Join the The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Club and help us hit the next milestone to get more episodes per month. Club members get ad-free episodes, early drops, live zoom trivia events and access to our Discord server! NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🌈 Cate encourages listeners to contribute to Rainbow Railroad, helping at-risk LGBTQI+ individuals get to safety around the world. 💰 And to local abortion funds 🤴 Thomas can be found at King Trivia 🐦 And on the website formerly known as Twitter 🐦 Trip is also on the formerly Twitters 🧩 And has quizzes on Sporcle 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer

Dan, Taylor, and Dave dance around to a jaunty acoustic guitar, percussion, and melodica tune. The music stops, and so do they. They all shout “DAN!” They dance again before pausing to shout “DAVE!” Once more before shouting “TAYLOR!” If that gets you in the mood for Bluey-inspired pop culture trivia, you’re in luck! Monty, Levi, and Diedra find some very cute Bluey mash-ups in round one, but also some kind of weird ones let’s not talk about it. Instead, we’ll get very meta in round two when we see if our players can identify times on TV where an actor slyly referenced their previous onscreen work. Honestly, we wish Dan would do this more on our show by coyly dropping in direct quotes from his political TV appearances into the score updates. Will he do it? Obviously no. Taylor tried to have round three this week be a game of keepy-uppy, but his request was denied in lieu of a regular old lightning round. Sigh. SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR MORE EPISODES PER MONTH 💰 Join the The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Club and help us hit the next milestone to get more episodes per month. Club members get ad-free episodes, early drops, live zoom trivia events and access to our Discord server! NOTES 🎬 Monty can be heard on Monty and Rhias versus movies! They versus movies! And really like Street Dance of China! 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer

It’s 100 years in the future. Human civilization has fallen. The only survivors are you, and the following three co-stars: Eleanor, Tim, and Jesse. Will they be enough to help you survive the post-apocalyptic trivia wasteland? Find out as we quiz our survivors on apocalyptic casts as well as titles that contain the same same word word multiple times. All this, a lightning round, and probably something else! SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR MORE EPISODES PER MONTH 💰 Join the The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Club and help us hit the next milestone to get more episodes per month. Club members get ad-free episodes, early drops, live zoom trivia events and access to our Discord server! NOTES 🙂 Jesse posts on Good Stuff Happened Today on Tumblr 🌤️ Tim is on BlueSky 🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle answer