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In honor of 420, we present you with submission #420.  The High Court with Doug Benson was like any other court show with a marijuana twist.  Blink and you missed it because it went up in smoke fast.

Combine wrestling with a cop show and what do you get?  You get a show which almost made ABC's lineup in the early 90s, Tag Team.  You can watch the episode at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Gf3gXvZ-k and follow along with this installment.  We even included commentary about the commercials.

In an episode which is sort of timely with Easter just happening, we look at a world where puppets and humans coexist on Greg the Bunny.

What happens when you mix Alex Trebek and a crudely animated sidekick?  You get the unaired pilot Malcolm, a show done for NBC in 1983.  This is a short show because there's not much meat on this bone.

Remember 1997, when the Internet was exciting, new, and informational?  We do, as do the Jamison family.  The Jamison kids share all the cool things you can do on the VHS cassette Kids Guide to the Internet.

Pricing games on The Price is Right can be hit or miss.  You can have winners like Plinko, Rat Race, and Master Key.  You can also have misses like the dozen games we will cover in this installment.

(Please note, this was an April Fools Day joke.  98% of what you hear in this episode is fake.)

While searching for material on a previous episode, we stumbled upon information about a very brief BBC comedy from 1980 capitalizing off of the popularity of Doctor Who and The $1.98 Beauty Show.  Combine the two and you get a series in which nothing outside of blurbs of the episodes exists, Rip Taylor in Time.

Comedy Central's TV Funhouse was from some of the minds associated with an entry from last week, The Dana Carvey Show.  It looked like a kid's show, but it was definitely not for the kids.

We look at ads Hulk Hogan has done over the years, from the conventional to the bizarre.

For your benefit, here is an ordered list of the ads covered and where to view them.  All links will open up in a new tab.

1. Honey Nut Cheerios Commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YTvB11JbY
2. Hulk Hogan Workout Set - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyuKfO5wUHs
3. 800-LoanMart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogx3GaZoYgo
4. Right Guard Commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCwzdzA-01Q
5. Pastamania Promo on WCW Nitro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MqesGatCgg
6. MTV Commercial (The Big …. Show) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVjY93xqsYc
7. Pummax - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SfF69Tenq4
8. 10-10-220 ad with ALF - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzTqHAljNtQ
9. 10-10-220 ad with Terry Bradshaw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ryT61OfKIM
10. 10-10-220 ad with Mike Piazza - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR_VU4vfTWI
11. Hostamania - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ss_DNXNweQ
12. Hitachi Japanese Commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdViUfe2IFg
13. Harris Teeter paper towel commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRPt7n8bkso

The Dana Carvey Show had future superstars among its supporting cast and a who's who of comedy writers but why did it fail so quickly, besides the absurd show airing immediately after a very special episode of Home Improvement?  We look at why this show was truly too funny to fail.  Warning:  There is some language which is not appropriate for everybody.