222: Going Through Changes With Big Mouth

222: Going Through Changes With Big Mouth

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV October 10, 2018 Duration: 1:48:51

Big Mouth has returned to Netflix for a second season of monstrous puberty (and puberty monsters), and Joe Reid is joining us to talk about the various sweaty humiliations that come with it! Around The Dial takes us to America To Me, Maniac, Chuck, and Dave's forcened sampling of Dreamland. Joe proposes the induction of the Friends episode "The One Where Rosita Dies" into the Nonac. Then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a golden Game Time. Get a textbook to hide your boner and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👄 Big Mouth

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 America To Me

Around The Dial: 🤪 Maniac

Around The Dial: 👟 Chuck

Around The Dial: 😴 Dreamland

The Nonac: 🤮 Friends S07.E13: The One Where Rosita Dies

Winner & Loser: 👍 Lance Bass

Winner & Loser: 👎 James Franco

Game Time: 🧠 Slumming It For An Emmy

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 222 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter

🗳 Joe on Decider

🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz


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