The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show
Join us each week on The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show for three fun rounds of trivia designed to challenge your pop culture brain and tickle your podcast fancy. Cheer on your favorite contestant as they progress towards the season championship match or throw your hat in the ring and apply to become a contestant yourself!
Episodes
April 15, 2024 • 46 mins
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...
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April 1, 2024 • 50 mins
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 D...
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March 18, 2024 • 44 mins
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 would...
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March 4, 2024 • 53 mins
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...
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February 19, 2024 • 49 mins
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...
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...
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February 5, 2024 • 47 mins
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’l...
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January 15, 2024 • 52 mins
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 req...
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January 1, 2024 • 51 mins
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...
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...
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December 11, 2023 • 43 mins
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...
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December 4, 2023 • 54 mins
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!
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November 20, 2023 • 54 mins
Taylor didn't forget to do the copy this week but he did put elements in the text that would have broken your browser, podcast app and possibly the whole internet as we know it. So here is the quickest, shortest version of it we could manage: fast quotes, LXGs.
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November 6, 2023 • 51 mins
A new season commences! Three returning players in Tripp, Tarn, and Neil kick things off in style as they flex their knowledge of American remakes of foreign films, as well as theoretical musicals adapted properties who already have musicalistic exclamation points in their titles. All this before a plethora of categories to close out the competition with the lightning round.
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October 16, 2023 • 50 mins
We may not have just won the Super Bowl, but we’re going to Disney World nonetheless! Grab your ears and your magic bands, and get ready for a special episode all about the rides, shows, and ephemera of Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. With us, we’ve got three bona fide Disney Parks experts in Julie (Double Your WDW), Katie (Ropedrop & Parkhop Podcast), and Dane (Chasing Chalamet Podcast). We’ll quiz them on ...
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October 2, 2023 • 63 mins
This week, we were pleased to welcome three very special guests from The Doctor Who podcast Verity. Grab your sonic screwdriver and join Hosts Erika Ensign, Lizbeth Myles, and Katrina Griffiths for pop culture trivia immediately adjacent to (or sometimes right within) their Whovian area of expertise. We’ll look at other pop culture portrayals of real historical figures portrayed on Doctor Who, as well as other roles of various...
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September 18, 2023 • 58 mins
I’m always forgetting to write the episode descriptions until it’s time to publish, so I’m gonna try an experiment where I write it a few hours in advance of even recording this episode.
Woah! What a crazy twist this season finale takes at the end. I never saw THAT ONE SPECIFIC THING coming, and I bet you won’t either as Larra, Kari, and Ben compete for the crown! An asthmatic game of my champion filled with some of t...
Woah! What a crazy twist this season finale takes at the end. I never saw THAT ONE SPECIFIC THING coming, and I bet you won’t either as Larra, Kari, and Ben compete for the crown! An asthmatic game of my champion filled with some of t...
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September 11, 2023 • 58 mins
After a couple of years of doing rounds about recent movies when ‘recent movies’ weren’t really a thing, we finally have a recent movies round where our players were more than up to the challenge! Kari, J-Mo, and JK (a veritable Venn diagram of middle-of-the-alphabet letters) tackle a classic before-and-after challenge of recent movies before being asked to recall critically panned comedies. ‘Cause we’re nice. And as per uzhe,...
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September 4, 2023 • 48 mins
Good grief! The season playoffs rage on as returning victors Ben, Cate and Joel tackle one of our silliest (aka dumbest) challenges yet--concocting titles of new Peanuts specials inspired by other pop culture properties. Then in round two, it’s a whole new batch of questions about various pop culture-inspired Monopoly boards. Just when we thought the concepts for that game couldn’t get any wilder, we found some truly ridiculou...
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August 21, 2023 • 49 mins
When Productionmaster Dave announced were gonna have a round of layoffs this season, I was a little hurt. As I gathered my composure to brace myself for the worst possible implications of such an announcement, I realized that he had actually said we were going to have a round of PLAYOFFS this season, and I felt like a fool for ever thinking otherwise. Thus, we were pleased to welcome back the uneliminated Larra, Ben and Elenor...
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August 14, 2023 • 53 mins
Will Cory and Courtney make JK lol? We’ll find out as we piece together mashed up acronyms from pop culture. Mashcronyms, I believe they’re called. Yup, that’s a real term that is in the dictionary. The OED probably, they’re fancy! Jury’s still out on Webster, but we KNOW those goons at American Heritage are too big of cowards to put a word like ‘mashcronym’ in their venerated publication. It’s so like them to just ignore the ...
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August 7, 2023 • 56 mins
Say word! D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-dilbert! Doink de doink! Sorry, dad! Dinky nuts! Squirrel jam! Hats! Balancing my checkbook! Zerbert in the sherbert! Twerk! One-hundred gift baskets! You’re now rocking with the Tesla boys! Baby Banjamin Franklin! Watch me veg! D.J. Tanner! Swanky pups! M-m-m-m-moped music! Costco samples like a m**********r! Uh! Crank up the mids! Patrick Stewart money! All these catchphrases are better, musically...
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