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Greg and Dane head to St. Louis for TNA Lockdown 2010 as Team Hogan takes on Team Flair in Lethal Lockdown. We also have the TNA World Title on the line between AJ Styles and the Pope while Kurt Angle and Mr. Anderson have the epic conclusion to their feud. Also, we talk about the Icelandic Volcano wreaking havoc on the card and a 20-inning game between the Mets and Cardinals.

The time has finally come to answer a question this podcast has posed for some time--What's a Snavely?  First, it's the first attempt to bring Fawlty Towers to this side of the Atlantic.  Second, it's a hotel.  Third, it's the surname of the owners.  Fourth, it's the seventh installment for Pilot Month 2026 and the 623rd episode of this podcast.

Greg and Dane continue their look into 2010 TNA with this episode of Impact during the middle of the Monday Night War with WWE. We got Team Hogan and Team Flair budding heads before the upcoming Lockdown PPV, Kurt Angle and Mr. Anderson battling for a key in a Ladder Match and the Knockouts Lockbox Challenge where one of the Knockouts has to do a striptease. OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

It's 1993.  Video games are the newest form of entertainment.  The landscape already has cartoons of Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and the Mega Man cartoon will bow in the following year.  What other video game characters have the popularity to drive a cartoon?  Bubsy?!  A pilot aired around Thanksgiving 1993.  What could possibly go wrong?  What COULDN'T go wrong?

Greg and Dane return to Georgia Championship Wrestling on this edition of the SCTM as they watch an Omni House Show from August of 1983 via the WWE Vault channel on YouTube.

We get to see the beginnings of Arn Anderson and Rick Rude in the lower-card, while we get a U.S. title match between Greg Valentine and Pistol Pez Whatley. It's all capped off with a dynamite main event chain match between Roddy Piper and Buzz Sawyer.

You can watch the full show on the WWE Vault channel at this link. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ60f__Fycs

We venture into the absurd with this pilot, where one character gets his abilities due to solar radiation, while his partner is half motorcycle and half human.  This project had two future stars, as well as a third coming off his big movie a year earlier.  (Coming.  IYKYK.)  ABC passed on it, and apparently FOX had to decide between this and a classic FOX sitcom as a 1999-2000 midseason replacement.  FOX made the right choice.

What's up next for Pilot Month 2026?  It.  What is It?  It is simply the linking word in a Before and After like you would see on Wheel of Fortune.  It had an amazing set, but It was also a mess, with many technical issues and goofs.  It was a work in progress.  And what's the deal with the gruesome animated character which was clearly a blatant ripoff of the Whammy?  All this use of the word 'it' is giving me a headache, just like when I first saw It.

In honor of "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" being released in theaters, along with "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" coming to MeTV Toons, we decided to release this "Best of" from 2021, covering The SMB Super Show! in honor of MAR10 Day. Just be sure to keep Hot Rod's bagpipes away from Mario and Luigi.

We usually don't include pilots of series which make it to television, but apparently someone made an exception.  Two pilots of the beloved series from the early 70s through the early 80s were done with the question format from the original series.  (The humorous questions would arrive about a year later.)  The first pilot can easily be found.  A word of warning about the second pilot:  There is at least one answer which doesn't fly in 2026, and probably shouldn't have flown in 1973.

It's time for the annual tradition at It Was a Thing on TV as we watch a game from Week 1 of the new UFL season. Greg and Mike in this episode go over some of the changes in the UFL with the new coaches, players and teams. We also go over why does the UFL have a betting expert on these games?