S02E08 - Hogan's Heroes

S02E10 - Cheers

This month Queen Mel and Sarcastro are joined by Mr. The Slayer to visit a place where everybody knows your name as they discuss the first episode of Cheers from 1982. Starring Ted Danson, Shelly Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Pearlman, and George Wendt, it was a sitcom that proves to the group that it can stand the test of time, at least for their generation. Queen Mel and Mr. The Slayer also discuss their trip up to the actual bar in Boston that Cheers was based on in the exterior shots. Where does it rank on the Benson - Blansky scale? Well, you will need to listen to find out. Theme song to The First Ones written and performed by Elysium/@elysium_music

S02E09 - M*A*S*H

This month Queen Mel and Sarcastro gather around with friend of the show, Mr. The Slayer, to talk about the pilot episode of the 1972 series, M*A*S*H. From the comedic approach to a terrible situation for the characters to be put in is fantastically acted out by the cast which in this episode was made up of Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville, McLean Stevenson and Gary Burghoff. The laugh track opens up a conversation on the use of those in modern shows and how sitcoms found the laugh tracks they wanted to use and if this podcast should start using one. Theme song to The First Ones written and performed by Elysium/@elysium_music

S02E08 - Hogan's Heroes

This month Queen Mel and Sarcastro watch Hogan's Heroes, the comedic portrayal of a group of Allied POWs in a stalag from 1965 who get up to a lot of mischief in getting over on their German captors. The show starred Bob Crane as the titular Col. Hogan; Werner Klemperer as Col. Klink the man in charge of the camp; John Banner as Sgt. Schultz, the only German officer in the camp who knows about the hijinx of the Allies; The show also co-starred Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon and Larry Hovis rounding out the rest of the heroes in Hogan's troupe. Theme song to The First Ones written and performed by Elysium/@elysium_music

S02E07 - Sledge Hammer!

This month Queen Mel and Sarcastro watched Sledge Hammer! which aired it's first episode in 1986 and starred David Rasche as the titular Sledge Hammer, a slightly (or more than slightly) unhinged from rational thought police inspector, who is joined by his more level-headed partner Detective Dori Doreau played by Anne-Marie Martin. This show had them questioning is it a sitcom based on the way it was shot compared to the other sitcoms they've watched on the show and if it was really as funny as the laugh track on Queen Mel's copy of the episode would have you believe. Theme song to The First Ones written and performed by Elysium/@elysium_music

S02E06 - Out of This World

This month Sarcastro and Queen Mel are sitting down with Mr. The Slayer to discuss his recommendation of the Out of This World, a sitcom that premiered in September of 1987 and was about a girl who finds out on her thirteenth birthday that she's half alien and begins to get powers from her absentee father's side of the family. So many questions, What powers will she gain? Will she use them for good or evil? Why did the mom lie about the father for so long? What the heck is an enoch? Intro and outro interpreted and performed by Banky on behalf of Sarcastro.