Episode 76: Old Bones

Original air date: November 28, 2018

Episode overview

The hosts stage mock charges over alleged slander, sweatpants, and abandoned record-shopping plans; after joking guilty pleas, the announced ruling is innocent on all charges, with no prize. Danny plays MIDI songs for Bingo and James to identify; regular rounds end tied, the game pauses through a break and Chat Pack, then James wins the resumed tiebreaker by identifying Live's 'Lightning Crashes,' with no verified prize or payment. Under the Chat Pack product name and later Something to Talk About music, Bingo, Danny, and James discuss three conversation-card prompts; no score, winner, or prize occurs. James proposes and immediately performs a Stuniverse-inspired Bruniverse installment about never appearing in Friday the 13th Part 2, never writing for Star Trek, and a breadless sandwich; no score, winner, or prize occurs.

Segments

• **Blood Court** — 0:03:54 · citation pending — The hosts stage mock charges over alleged slander, sweatpants, and abandoned record-shopping plans; after joking guilty pleas, the announced ruling is innocent on all charges, with no prize.
• **Guess That MIDI** — 0:54:34 · citation pending — Danny plays MIDI songs for Bingo and James to identify; regular rounds end tied, the game pauses through a break and Chat Pack, then James wins the resumed tiebreaker by identifying Live's 'Lightning Crashes,' with no verified prize or payment.
• **Something to Talk About** — 1:16:15 · citation pending — Under the Chat Pack product name and later Something to Talk About music, Bingo, Danny, and James discuss three conversation-card prompts; no score, winner, or prize occurs.
• **The Bruniverse** — 1:33:33 · citation pending — James proposes and immediately performs a Stuniverse-inspired Bruniverse installment about never appearing in Friday the 13th Part 2, never writing for Star Trek, and a breadless sandwich; no score, winner, or prize occurs.

Verified episode facts

• **Blood court outcome**: The mock adjudication ends with an announced ruling of innocent on all charges after joking guilty pleas. This is comedic show canon, not a legal finding, and no winner or prize occurs.
• **Jason witten clip-grading classification**: The hosts play one Jason Witten pronunciation clip and guest James assigns it a B. The activity is introduced only as the next little segment and has no stable show-feature title or formal close, so it is retained as a structured one-off rather than a formal segment or ranking precursor; medical speculation is excluded as unverified.
• **Guess that midi outcome**: The regular rounds finish tied, after which the game pauses. When it resumes, the answer 'Lightning Crashes' is immediately followed by the host's explicit celebration of James, securely establishing James as the winner without inferring the unlabeled answer speaker. The earlier $50 line is banter, and no actual payment or prize is verified.
• **Chat pack outcome**: The hosts and James complete three conversation-card topics under the Chat Pack product name and Something to Talk About music. A possible future use of cards as prizes is hypothetical; no contest, winner, or card award occurs.
• **Bruniverse outcome**: James proposes and immediately performs one inaugural Bruniverse installment, which closes with the repeated title chant. Statements within the absurd monologue are performance material, not biographical verification; no winner or prize occurs.
• **Three-song review outcome and precursor status**: In an untitled structured one-off, three songs receive inconsistent evaluations: the anti-premarital-sex rap receives D; I Ate a Sewer Rat receives A-plus and two spoken 10 ratings; the polio rap receives half a sewer rat, A-plus, and F-plus from James. The finite set and item ratings make this a rating-only Rank'em precursor, but no stable common scale, ordered placement, tiers, overall winner, or prize makes it a full ranking predecessor or formal named segment.
• **I ate a sewer rat classification**: I Ate a Sewer Rat is the title of one third-party song reviewed inside the untitled three-song block, not a Halfway Okay segment title or independently verified factual account.
• **Closing promotions and plans**: Guest James promotes Black Magic Death Sphere; the hosts promote apparel and a limited Twelve Musketeers calendar, warn that a purchased sweatshirt ran small, and announce a prospective Friendship Club gift exchange with unresolved details. These are dated on-air promotions or plans, not verified current availability, sales, sizing guarantees, or completed exchange outcomes.