Episode 114: An Oral History of the Rhode Island Greens

Original air date: August 29, 2019

Episode overview

The hosts play and answer three prerecorded questions from Clara about whether Pikachu can hear every Pokemon, Pikachu's friends, and how Pikachu electrocutes, while attempting to keep their answers child-appropriate. Julie runs a buzzer competition in which Bingo and Danny identify television themes. Danny wins by an inferred final score of 13–10, and both contestants open pre-labelled Halloween gift bags. HMSS investigates a wrong-number voicemail from another Bingo about Missouri football and a Japanese festival, then calls him live to discuss the mass-contact joke, the Fraternal Order of Bingo Greens, and Green-family genealogy. Bingo and Julie improvise a jazz-backed Marmalade-and-Harv melodrama in which a foot massage ruptures a bunion, causes vomiting and a breakup, and ends with the couple reconciling. The hosts watch and comment on the long-form anti-piracy CGI video Piracy an Offence, including its space hero, anti-piracy robot and Piracy Queen. Julie recounts a 2001 night when a strange man asked to borrow the phone and she later felt a comforting hand touch her back three times; the group weighs supernatural and psychological explanations. Bingo and Julie review Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, comparing it to Goosebumps and discussing its jump scares, creature effects, Harold and the spider sequence.

Segments

• **Clara’s Question Corner** — 0:10:42 · citation pending — The hosts play and answer three prerecorded questions from Clara about whether Pikachu can hear every Pokemon, Pikachu's friends, and how Pikachu electrocutes, while attempting to keep their answers child-appropriate.
• **Name Your Tune with a TV Theme, Bitch** — 0:18:54 · citation pending — Julie runs a buzzer competition in which Bingo and Danny identify television themes. Danny wins by an inferred final score of 13–10, and both contestants open pre-labelled Halloween gift bags.
• **Halfway Okay Mystery Solving Society** — 0:45:13 · citation pending — HMSS investigates a wrong-number voicemail from another Bingo about Missouri football and a Japanese festival, then calls him live to discuss the mass-contact joke, the Fraternal Order of Bingo Greens, and Green-family genealogy.
• **Marmalade: Jazz Nightz** — 0:59:39 · citation pending — Bingo and Julie improvise a jazz-backed Marmalade-and-Harv melodrama in which a foot massage ruptures a bunion, causes vomiting and a breakup, and ends with the couple reconciling.
• **Video Showcase** — 1:04:32 · citation pending — The hosts watch and comment on the long-form anti-piracy CGI video Piracy an Offence, including its space hero, anti-piracy robot and Piracy Queen.
• **Scary Stories to Tell in the Pod** — 1:22:29 · citation pending — Julie recounts a 2001 night when a strange man asked to borrow the phone and she later felt a comforting hand touch her back three times; the group weighs supernatural and psychological explanations.
• **Drac Pack Movie Review** — 1:28:48 · citation pending — Bingo and Julie review Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, comparing it to Goosebumps and discussing its jump scares, creature effects, Harold and the spider sequence.

Verified episode facts

• **Name your tune with a tv theme, bitch result**: Danny won the television-theme quiz over Bingo by an inferred final score of 13–10. The last explicitly spoken score is 12–10 before Danny answers Buffy correctly for the final point, and Danny then says he won. Both contestants received Halloween gift bags; there was no winner-exclusive prize.