"Let's get down on our hands and knees and look for Professor Answer's I.Q."
-- Bud E. Budwaller, On the Air: "Episode 1.3"
It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast! In this episode, we discuss "Episode 1.3", the second transmitted episode of the short-lived ABC sitcom On the Air from 1992, written by Robert Engels and featuring Ian Buchanan as Lester Guy, Miguel Ferrer as Bud E. Budwaller, David L. Lander as Valdja Gochktch, and Tracey Walter as Billy "Blinky" Watts!
LET'S ROCK!
In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like my waiting for my first COVID vaccination shot, paying tribute to the late Jessica Walter from Archer, Xan having the Vision Quest DVD and soundtrack album on vinyl, wrestling being a big deal in Xan's family, Gary Busey playing a version of Robert Blake on Law & Order, ABC not airing the second produced episode of On the Air, Lester suddenly really hating Betty, what happened in the unaired "Episode 1.2", Jack Fisk as the episode's director, Ken Jennings on Jeopardy, Dr. Joyce Brothers winning The $64,000 Question, Valdja butchering "Winner Takes All" as "Winnar Tuckus Ull", Congress and the 1950s Quiz Show scandals, guest star Richard Riehle as Tom Symkowski in Office Space and Principal Ed Rooney on the Ferris Bueller TV show, Blinky intentionally sabotaging Professor Answer with a screeching noise, the Amberjack's automatic pipe connector spitting out chunks of sheared metal, McGonigle acting like a dog, the My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles mnemonic to remember the order of planets in our solar system, the episode-long setup for the "Out, damned spot, out" gag at the end, Levar Burton on Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Reading Rainbow, why Xan and I need to do the Judge Judy show, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s, DJ Nik being our consultant on all things Judaic, Xan's praise for EC Comics publisher William Gaines, Al Jaffee's Mad magazine fold-ins, people making it their business to fixate on other people's business, social progress changes taking place in the long term, being appreciative of our listeners who listened to our first On the Air discussion, my pitching Xan six movies for Drunk Cinema that she hasn't watched before, Xan's upcoming appearance on Next Stop Everywhere to discuss "The Three Doctors", our reaction to Tom Baker appearing in "The Day of the Doctor", and more!
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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 096, as Xan and I discuss "Episode 1.5", the third and final transmitted episode of On the Air from 1992, featuring Ian Buchanan as Lester Guy, Miguel Ferrer as Bud Budwaller, David L. Lander as Valdja Gochktch, and Tracey Walter as Billy "Blinky" Watts!