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Opening Credits
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From NPR and WNYC, this is ASK ME ANOTHER. I'm Ophira Eisenberg, and I'm here in studio with house musician Jonathan Coulton 'cause this week, we're dedicating an hour to a special theme, TV, TV on the radio. That's right, it's our first and only television show on the radio. It's about time, I'd say. We're going to be revisiting some of our favorite games about television. And we're going to be playing a brand-new game with one lucky phone contestant 2. Jonathan, is there a show that you wish had its own spinoff, like "The Walking Dead" has “Fear The Walking Dead?"
JONATHAN COULTON: Yeah. I feel like when they did a spinoff of "Walking Dead," they missed a great opportunity.
EISENBERG: Oh, yeah?
COULTON: Well, what they should have done is done a spinoff where it's just about one of the zombies.
EISENBERG: The life of the zombie?
COULTON: The life of the zombie. It's just its day-to-day life. You follow him around. He's kind of shuffling 3 for maybe 20 minutes in the show. And he hears a noise, and he goes, he checks it out, it's nothing. But sometimes it's a person. "Walking Dead: Miami," "Walking Dead: SVU..."
COULTON: "Walking Dead: Las Vegas" - oh, brilliant. So in this game, we play a word game in which we create television show spinoffs. Let's see how well contestants 4 Carmine 5 Giovino and Annie Brogan do in this game.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)
COULTON: Puzzle guru John Chaneski, please give us an example.
JOHN CHANESKI: Sheriff Rick Grimes thought that zombies in America were tough. But now he's fighting meat puppets on a lake in the Middle East that's got so much salt in it, the zombies float. That would be a summary for "The Walking Dead Sea."
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: So it's a bit of a mash-up, a bit of a pun. It will always start with the name of an actual television show with some extra stuff jammed onto the end...
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: ...Elegantly. Are you ready?
ANNIE BROGAN: Let's do it.
CARMINE GIOVINO: Let's do it.
COULTON: OK. Down on their luck, the Dunphys and the Pritchetts go on a popular game show and suddenly find themselves undefeated champions. Will their hilarious 7 answers to survey questions ever end?
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
COULTON: Annie.
BROGAN: "Modern Family Feud 8."
COULTON: You got it.
(APPLAUSE)
COULTON: In this prequel spinoff, we discover the real reason Walter White started his meth empire - years of exposure to chemicals gave him chronic 9 halitosis.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
COULTON: Annie.
BROGAN: "Breaking Bad Breath?"
COULTON: That's right.
(APPLAUSE)
COULTON: Sort of a limited idea for a series, but...
EISENBERG: I love it. It's like who cares about your breath when you have meth teeth, I guess the...
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: Your breath is sort of the least of your worries.
EISENBERG: Exactly.
COULTON: To make up for a series finale that was hated by its fans, Ted 6 Mosby and Robin 10 begin telling the kids the story of how they purchased a liberal political magazine and launched a media empire.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
COULTON: Annie.
BROGAN: "How I Met Your Mother Jones."
COULTON: Nice.
(APPLAUSE)
EISENBERG: People are impressed by that. They're like, oh, that sounds like a show I would like.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: Upon regenerating 11 for the 12th time, our title character's tardis - that's a hint - is pulled to New York City, where he is challenged to answer increasingly difficult multiple-choice questions to win a life-changing amount of money.
(LAUGHTER)
EISENBERG: Oh, Carmine, you don't know?
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
EISENBERG: You're just giving it to Annie?
COULTON: Carmine is like go ahead, Annie.
BROGAN: "Doctor Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"
COULTON: That's right.
(APPLAUSE)
GIOVINO: This was my biggest fear.
(LAUGHTER)
GIOVINO: Not just about this show in general. This was my biggest fear.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: In your life.
GIOVINO: Yeah.
COULTON: When Peter Griffin leaves this animated 12 show to pursue other opportunities, he is replaced by a British director whose ex-wife Madonna makes frequent appearances in cutaway gags.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
GIOVINO: Yes.
COULTON: Carmine.
(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)
COULTON: Great job, Carmine.
GIOVINO: I don't want to screw this up now - "Family Guy Ritchie."
COULTON: That's right.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
(APPLAUSE)
GIOVINO: I'm on the board.
COULTON: That's Carmine, ladies and gentlemen...
EISENBERG: Yeah.
COULTON: ...Buzzer 13 number two. To make peace with their human counterparts, the vampires 14 of Bon Temp form a medical supply company and embark 15 on a noble challenge to create a device that makes the most accurate systolic and diastolic measurements ever.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
COULTON: Carmine.
GIOVINO: "True Blood Drive?" "True Blood Machine."
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: No, those are both wrong.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: Annie, do you have a guess?
BROGAN: I do and it's only because he said "True Blood," so thank you.
GIOVINO: You're welcome. Do I get half a point?
COULTON: Story of your life, Carmine.
BROGAN: "True Blood Pressure Gauge 16?"
COULTON: Just True Blood Pressure would have done it.
BROGAN: Oh, OK.
(APPLAUSE)
EISENBERG: Wait, wait, wait, it's where you go if you are feeling twilight-headed.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: Wow.
EISENBERG: Come on.
COULTON: Wow, that was pretty good. That was pretty good. All right, this is your last question. In the season finale, Frank Underwood attempts to undermine his opponents chances at winning the presidency 17 by filming him playing an offensive fill-in-the-blank party game with wealthy donors 18.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
COULTON: Carmine.
GIOVINO: "House Of Cards Against Humanity?"
COULTON: That's right.
(APPLAUSE)
COULTON: John Chaneski, how did our contestants do?
CHANESKI: Well, he made a big push at the end, but I'm afraid our winner today of Spinoffs is Annie. Way to go, Annie.
(APPLAUSE)
COULTON: The sad thing about all TV shows is that they have to win sometimes, except, of course, for "The Simpsons." That show is going to outlast 19 us all. But the best thing a TV show creator can hope for is that you know when the end is coming and you can write a fitting last episode.
EISENBERG: Sometimes, that episode is amazing, like Don Draper sitting on the top of a mountain.
COULTON: Whoa.
EISENBERG: Oh, sorry.
COULTON: That's a spoiler.
EISENBERG: Spoiler.
And other times, the ending gets a little weird 20. So in the game, we quizzed James Gallen and Adar Eisenbruch on series finales that were a little controversial.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)
COULTON: You ready?
EISENBERG: The family matriarch sits with her typewriter in the basement. A voiceover tells us that she never won the lottery 21. It was just a fantasy. Worse, we find out that Dan has been dead for the entire last season. Mrs. Connor curls up on a ratty couch, turns on the TV as a quote from "Lawrence Of Arabia" flashes on the screen.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
EISENBERG: James.
JAMES GALLEN: "Roseanne."
EISENBERG: That is correct, "Roseanne."
(APPLAUSE)
EISENBERG: It was a weird one.
GALLEN: Oh, I love "Roseanne." That was, like, the best show growing up. I wasn't allowed to watch it 'cause I was too little, but I used to sneak 22 in.
EISENBERG: And they thought you would be influenced by that show in a bad way.
GALLEN: You know, working-class - I don't think it was, like, a bad thing.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: You don't want to show kids a lot of working-class stuff.
GALLEN: We just watched "Dynasty" and went, yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: Aspirational 23 television.
EISENBERG: People who work nine-to-five jobs are beneath you, James.
(LAUGHTER)
EISENBERG: Did you grow up really rich, James?
GALLEN: No. And I'm unemployed 24 now. So...
EISENBERG: OK.
(LAUGHTER)
EISENBERG: So...
COULTON: Our leading man takes his sister off life support and dumps her body in the ocean. Days later, we find out that he is dead, too - fade to black. But wait - suddenly, we're in the Pacific Northwest where our hero is hiding out, working as a truck driver. His beard is longer, and he's wearing flannel 25.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
COULTON: James.
GALLEN: "Dexter."
COULTON: "Dexter" is correct.
(APPLAUSE)
EISENBERG: I love a disguise where your beard is just longer.
COULTON: Right. I'm wearing that right now.
EISENBERG: Yeah, you're wearing - yeah. Our protagonist 26 walks down a busy New York street in the same fur coat she wore in the series premiere. Her pink cellphone rings. She checks the caller ID, and finally, we learn that Mr. Big's real first name is - wait for it - John.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
EISENBERG: James.
GALLEN: "Sex And The City."
EISENBERG: "Sex And The City," yep.
(APPLAUSE)
GALLEN: My wife watched that movie every day for, like, a year - the one, not two.
EISENBERG: Yeah, thank you. Thank you.
(LAUGHTER)
WILL HINES: She has standards.
EISENBERG: Yeah, that is - thank goodness.
HINES: No working-class people in it either, so both...
(LAUGHTER)
HINES: ...Both spouses 27 are happy.
EISENBERG: Still OK, still OK.
GALLEN: Safe - safe to watch.
(APPLAUSE)
COULTON: The citizens of Walnut 28 Grove 29, Minn., discover that their small town has been purchased by a rich robber baron 30. In a bizarre attempt to preserve their dignity, Laura and the townsfolk elect to blow up their own homes. We watch everything explode.
I remember watching this. It was weird.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
GALLEN: "Twin Peaks."
COULTON: That's a fine guess, but it's incorrect. Adar, do you know the answer?
ADAR EISENBRUCH: There's a chance that I misrepresented my skill set during the application process.
(LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE)
EISENBRUCH: I don't know the answer.
COULTON: I have never watched television. I do not know what television is.
HINES: Yeah. Not a day goes by that I don't think the same thing.
EISENBERG: I know. Do you watch a lot of television?
EISENBRUCH: Well, I thought I did but, apparently 31, not nearly enough.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: You're wasting all your time in grad school.
EISENBRUCH: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: You got to be unemployed like James.
EISENBERG: See.
COULTON: You'll have plenty time for television.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: The answer we were looking for was "Little House On The Prairie."
EISENBERG: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE)
COULTON: Bizarre way to end that series.
EISENBERG: We're in present-day New York City. Everyone's married to or about to get married to their high school sweetheart. After six years of guessing, we finally find out which character Kristen Bell was performing her voiceover for, and it was a guy.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
EISENBERG: James.
GALLEN: "Gossip Girl."
EISENBERG: Yes, indeed.
COULTON: Wow.
(APPLAUSE)
EISENBRUCH: I don't feel bad that he got it all.
(LAUGHTER)
GALLEN: I feel bad that I got it.
COULTON: This children's series ends with Earl Sinclair gathering 32 his family in the living room. He tells his children that his attempts to tamper 33 with nature have set about the end of the world. What's going to happen to us? - his adorable baby asks. The snow outside the window answers the question. Global cooling has doomed 34 their entire species.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
COULTON: James.
COULTON: "Dinosaurs," are you kidding me?
GALLEN: I have nothing to do.
(LAUGHTER)
HINES: Who knew that "Gossip Girl" and "Dinosaurs" was reaching the same demographic?
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: You're breaking all the models, James. This is fantastic.
GALLEN: I'm a Renaissance 36 man.
COULTON: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: I would like to give you a job right now, James.
(LAUGHTER)
COULTON: Will you watch television for me?
GALLEN: I will.
(LAUGHTER)
EISENBERG: Yeah, you could do coverage 37 or something at the very least.
COULTON: Something, yeah.
EISENBERG: Scheduling - maybe scheduling would be good for you 'cause you're, like, 8 a.m., I watch "Dinosaurs."
(LAUGHTER)
GALLEN: I don't get up until noon.
(LAUGHTER)
HINES: You're not not selling us.
EISENBERG: Yeah, you're just bragging 38 now, really.
(LAUGHTER)
EISENBERG: All right. We're in church. Nearly all of the show's main characters, including deceased ones, hug and exchange meaningful looks. But no one says a word. Cut to the bamboo forest where our bleeding protagonist is taking his final breath. Now we're back in church as blinding light swallows the scene. The last shot - Jack's eye closes.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
GALLEN: Sorry.
EISENBERG: James.
GALLEN: "Lost."
EISENBERG: "Lost" is correct, yes.
(APPLAUSE)
EISENBERG: Puzzle guru Will Hines.
(LAUGHTER)
HINES: I mean, in the realms of honesty, they were both winners.
(LAUGHTER)
HINES: But...
EISENBRUCH: Thank you.
HINES: ...In terms of knowing - maybe an unflattering amount about the end of a lot of television series...
(LAUGHTER)
HINES: ...James was the clear winner. So, James, well done. You're moving on to the final round.
(APPLAUSE)
EISENBERG: Coming up after the break, we get comfortable with someone who really does have the dream job of getting paid to watch television. I'm talking New Yorker television columnist 39 Emily Nussbaum and indie rock band They Might Be Giants joins Jonathan Coulton in reviving some classic TV themes. I'm Ophira Eisenberg, and this ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR.
(SOUNDBITE OF JESSICA PARE SONG, "ZOU BISOUS BISOUS")
- View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
- I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。
- The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
- The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。
- The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing 8 different countries. 这次比赛吸引了代表8个不同国家的500多名参赛者。
- Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The wind of the autumn color the maples carmine.秋风给枫林涂抹胭红。
- The dish is fresh,fragrant,salty and sweet with the carmine color.这道菜用材新鲜，香甜入口，颜色殷红。
- The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
- She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
- The party got quite hilarious after they brought more wine.在他们又拿来更多的酒之后，派对变得更加热闹起来。
- We stop laughing because the show was so hilarious.我们笑个不停，因为那个节目太搞笑了。
- How did he start his feud with his neighbor?他是怎样和邻居开始争吵起来的？
- The two tribes were long at feud with each other.这两个部族长期不和。
- Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
- Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。
- The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
- We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。
- It is not proposed to deal with the detailed histology of regenerating tissues here. 这里未提出详细的再生组织的组织学。 来自辞典例句
- This is accomplished by using a thermocompressor to recycle regenerating steam through the absorber. 它用热压机使再生蒸汽经吸附器循环完成解吸过程。 来自辞典例句
- His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
- We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。
- The buzzer went off at eight o'clock.蜂鸣器在8点钟时响了。
- Press the buzzer when you want to talk.你想讲话的时候就按蜂鸣器。
- The most effective weapon against the vampires is avampire itself. 对付吸血鬼最有效的武器就是吸血鬼自己。 来自电影对白
- If vampires existed, don`t you think we would`ve found them by now? 如果真有吸血鬼，那我们怎么还没有找到他们呢？ 来自电影对白
- He is about to embark on a new business venture.他就要开始新的商业冒险活动。
- Many people embark for Europe at New York harbor.许多人在纽约港乘船去欧洲。
- Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗？
- It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。
- Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
- Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
- Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
- About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The great use of life is to spend it doing something that will outlast it.人生的充分利用就是为争取比人生更长久的东西而度过一生。
- These naturally dried flowers will outlast a bouquet of fresh blooms.这些自然风干的花会比一束鲜花更加持久。
- From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
- His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
- He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
- They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。
- He raised his spear and sneak forward.他提起长矛悄悄地前进。
- I saw him sneak away from us.我看见他悄悄地从我们身边走开。
- Most of the images that bombard us all are aspirational. 轰击的图像，我们都期望最大。
- Analysts said self-help and aspirational reading could explain India's high figures. 分析师们指出，自助读书、热爱读书是印度人均读书时间超过别的国家的主要原因。
- There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
- The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。
- She always wears a grey flannel trousers.她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。
- She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt.她穿着法兰绒裙子，看上去楚楚动人。
- The protagonist reforms in the end and avoids his proper punishment.戏剧主角最后改过自新并避免了他应受的惩罚。
- He is the model for the protagonist in the play.剧本中的主人公就是以他为模特儿创作的！
- Jobs are available for spouses on campus and in the community. 校园里和社区里有配偶可做的工作。 来自辞典例句
- An astonishing number of spouses-most particularly in the upper-income brackets-have no close notion of their husbands'paychecks. 相当大一部分妇女——特别在高收入阶层——并不很了解他们丈夫的薪金。 来自辞典例句
- Walnut is a local specialty here.核桃是此地的土特产。
- The stool comes in several sizes in walnut or mahogany.凳子有几种尺寸，材质分胡桃木和红木两种。
- On top of the hill was a grove of tall trees.山顶上一片高大的树林。
- The scent of lemons filled the grove.柠檬香味充满了小树林。
- Henry Ford was an automobile baron.亨利·福特是一位汽车业巨头。
- The baron lived in a strong castle.男爵住在一座坚固的城堡中。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
- He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
- Do not tamper with other's business.不要干预别人的事。
- They had strict orders not to tamper with the customs of the minorities.他们得到命令严禁干涉少数民族的风俗习惯。
- The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
- A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
- The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。
- The theme of the conference is renaissance Europe.大会的主题是文艺复兴时期的欧洲。
- There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
- This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
- He's always bragging about his prowess as a cricketer. 他总是吹嘘自己板球水平高超。 来自辞典例句
- Now you're bragging, darling. You know you don't need to brag. 这就是夸口，亲爱的。你明知道你不必吹。 来自辞典例句