Dinner & Dolby!

Summary

The Commercial Break – Episode: Dinner & Dolby! (September 4, 2024)

Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of The Commercial Break sees hosts Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley diving into nostalgic 90s pop culture, reviewing the hilariously awkward dating TV show “Buzz” from 1996. They riff on the evolution (or devolution) of televised romance, cringe-inducing game show formats, and their own personal takes on birthdays, Atlanta summer heat, and coffee rituals. As always, expect chaotic, unscripted humor and irreverent banter between lifelong friends.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Atlanta Heat, Birthdays, and Coffee Culture

• Atlanta's Brutal Summer: Both hosts open by lamenting about the city's oppressive heat—Bryan: “It's 117,000 degrees outside right now in Atlanta, Georgia." (02:38)
• Starbucks vs. Local Cafes: Bryan humorously details his love-hate relationship with Starbucks (“I’m not sucking on the tit of Schultz” 06:03), their friendly local staff, and the lack of independent coffee shops in his suburb.
• Birthday Blues vs. Month-Long Bashes: Bryan is candidly anti-birthday, reflecting on his family’s utilitarian attitude toward celebrations. Krissy, by contrast, goes all out—“I like a full month to celebrate mine” (08:26).
• Generational Differences: Bryan attributes his apathy for birthdays to generational trauma and stoicism passed down from war-era ancestors: “These are just different kind of human beings…they barely acknowledged each other, probably in the household.” (10:57)
• Millennial Communication: Both express frustration with constant calls/texts. Bryan jokes about muting nearly everyone for peace, especially on his birthday: “The only people that are supposed to buzz me are you. My family.” (10:13)

Exploring 90s Dating Shows: "Buzz"

• Setup: The pair dissect the obscure 1996 dating show Buzz, marveling at its low-budget production, awkward format, and over-the-top host antics.
• Format Mockery: "Four singles of the opposite sex are behind a wall...they’ve got just a couple of seconds to make their pitch” (18:04). Both find this cringeworthy, likening the set to Nickelodeon's Double Dare and referencing “shadow box” introductions for the contestants.
• Contestant Oddities: The hosts roast contestants' bizarre introductions (e.g., “I imitate birds and truck drivers. I’m hilarious. Pick me and we’ll get all sloppy together.” [24:11]).
  • Bryan, deadpan: “I do heroin random on Wednesday nights. You’re gonna love me. I’m crazy.” (24:30)
• Nostalgia for Outdated Tropes: They point out the 90s penchant for sexual innuendo and cliches (“If you’re looking for a little motion in your ocean, take the plunge with me.” [25:31]), and how sanitized compared to today’s edgy reality TV.
• Host Appearance: Both mock the host’s “cartoonishly blonde” hair (27:18), highlighting 90s style excess.
• Lack of Chemistry: The male contestant is skewered for his boring questions and lack of charisma: “He’s got the personality of a snow pea.” (27:56)
• Simpatico Round: The climactic “compatibility” round has contestants answering if they’d correct or ignore various household annoyances to win a date to “Tommy Tang’s” and a sound system. Bryan quips: “How is this gonna determine your future love?” (44:22)
• Prizes: Much laughter is directed at the mundane prize—dinner and a now-obsolete stereo system, “Dinner in Dolby, baby.” (43:47)

Meta Commentary on TV, Nostalgia, and Comedy

• Disposable Culture: The hosts muse on how disposable this sort of TV was, filled with “embarrassment of riches” casting and outlandish setups doomed not to last.
• TV Reruns & Revivals: It’s revealed Buzz lasted two seasons, surprising both—“That’s a lot longer than I would have anticipated anybody would have put up with this crazy crap.” (47:42)
• Desire for TCB Merch: Running gag about making “Meet Me at Tangs” t-shirts, poking fun at their own show and the episode’s running jokes.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Showing Up: “We do show up…that we do show. We’re contractually obligated to show up to do 225 new episodes every year. Isn’t that insane?” – Bryan (02:17)
• On Making Coffee at Home: “I tried to make my own cold brew coffee…and I’m telling you right now, tastes like shite.” – Bryan (07:08)
• On Birthday Indifference: “If I want to make everybody else around me miserable for one day, no one may celebrate.” – Bryan (08:15)
• On Genetic Stoicism: “My great grandfather was World War I. My grandfather was World War II. My father was barely Vietnam…celebrating birthdays was not bred into us.” – Bryan (10:57)
• On Cringe TV: “Wow. A stereo system complete with a very large set of speakers…They call that Dinner in Dolby, baby.” – Bryan (43:47)
• Contestant Burn: “What was she supposed to say? Honestly, it was like one of those Rorschach tests. It looked like a woman with her legs open…” – Bryan (31:16)
• On 90s TV Dating: “The 90s were notorious…for silly dating shows like this…if there was a girl who would wear, be scantily clad and say weird outgoing things, then she would be on the next dating show.” – Bryan (38:36)
• On Prizes: “You get dinner in hysteria.” – Chris (43:40), riffing on the underwhelming value of the show’s rewards.
• On TV Longevity: “That’s a lot longer than I would have anticipated anybody would have put up with this crazy crap.” – Bryan (47:42)

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Episode Flow & Timestamps

• 00:00 – 02:16 | Opening banter, episode set-up, podcast contracts, Atlanta heat
• 02:17 – 07:38 | Local coffee rituals, Starbucks tales, and cold brew failures
• 07:38 – 15:06 | Birthdays: celebration vs. avoidance, family influences, half-year milestones
• 15:06 – 18:04 | Listener updates, show plugs, live show announcements
• 18:04 – 37:41 | Deep dive into "Buzz": dated production, contestant intros, hosts’ running commentary/reactions, comedic impressions
• 37:41 – 44:21 | “Simpatico Round” begins; riffing on prizes and show absurdities
• 44:21 – 50:40 | Prize reveal, musings on “Dinner in Dolby” and Tommy Tang’s, more game show mockery
• 50:40 – 52:11 | Closing remarks, show plugs, goodbye

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Tone & Style

The episode is a rapid-fire, freewheeling mix of nostalgia, sarcastic pop-culture commentary, and offbeat personal anecdotes delivered with the hosts’ signature blend of playful self-deprecation and sharp wit.

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For New Listeners

If you missed the episode, you didn’t miss an earnest dating discussion, but rather a comedic, affectionate evisceration of 90s TV oddities—with plenty of digressions about birthdays, bad coffee, and the cruel Georgia summer. It's a classic slice of The Commercial Break: equal parts unfiltered, hilarious, and chaotic.

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Key Takeaway:
Reality TV was weird, the 90s were even weirder, and if you ever see a “Dinner in Dolby” prize offered, run. Also: “Meet me at Tangs” might just be the new inside joke you didn’t know you needed.

Transcript

[Brian Green]

When I get a serious craving for something I want to eat, I need some cheese, tomatoes and olives and maybe even some meat. I need some pizza, Pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza. Every time I want that pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza. I go to David's Pizza. On this episode of the commercial break. Wow. A stereo system complete with a very large set of speakers. Those things are huge. Geez. But that's all the rage back then. And, well, I guess those are stands. You hang them off your wall. Yeah, I guess that was state of the art back then. What is that? It's a hundred and fifty package right there. They call that dinner in Dolby, baby. Dinner in Dolby.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

A Leonardoby 1.0. I might have the next episode of the commercial break starts now.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Yeah, boy.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and co host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian, and best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us. I'm so happy to be here for yet another episode of the commercial break. Can't you tell me too? Yes. Well, every once in a while, even a little break. The fourth wall, as we always do here on the show. There is no fourth wall here on the show. I don't even know what I'm talking about. There's no showmanship going on on this show. All that goes out the window. Podcast industry. I'll talk about it. Podcast downloads, I'll blow them out of the water. Podcast shitheads. You're on notice. Brian might allude to you, but, you know, every once in a while you feel it. Every once in a while, maybe you're not feeling it so much. And today I woke just was like, hey, I don't know if I want to do an episode of the commercial break. But then you walk in and I go, oh, okay, I can do an episode of the commercial. Right? That's true story. I guess that's why we're. We're good at this.

[Chris Hoadley]

We do we push you or are.

[Brian Green]

We good at this? I'm not sure.

[Chris Hoadley]

We both show up.

[Brian Green]

We do show up. That's it. That we do show. We're contractually obligated to show up to do 225 new episodes every year. Isn't that insane?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I was like, for some reason had to review a part of our contract and I was like, wow, I agreed to that. Was I sane? Was I drunk? Was I. No, it definitely wasn't. Drunk. What was I when I agreed to 225?

[Chris Hoadley]

It's a lot.

[Brian Green]

I could have pushed it down to 150. It would have been a much more manageable number. But I mean, once you get going, you just get going. And that's what it is. And you do what you do. And we shouldn't complain because it's117,000 degrees outside right now in Atlanta, Georgia. It was 72 last week. It was pleasant. It was so.

[Chris Hoadley]

There was a crisp air. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I went out at night. I had to, like. I almost thought about putting a jacket on. I was like, oh, do I have to put a on? Like, I mean, do I need to? Yeah. There was no spritzing going on. I wasn't schmutzing everywhere. I was just. I felt lovely. We rode to school. The first couple of days of school, we rode to school with the windows down.

[Chris Hoadley]

It was so nice.

[Brian Green]

Lovely. And then today, 7:15 in the morning, and my poor daughters have already sweat through their shirts. I don't even think they have sweat glands yet. And they're already sweating. We're all boiling to death.

[Chris Hoadley]

I know. I went on a walk and it was miserable.

[Brian Green]

Miserable, man. And so we're dry. Astro and I are driving to an appointment that we have and there's a landscaping crew. On the way there, we see a landscaping crew. It's like, I don't know, let's call it 15 guys in like yellow reflective vests. And they're all standing. There's a truck like a full of landscaping material, sod and pine straw and this stuff. And it's in a parking lot on a corner of a street we're taking a ride on and. And all the guys are standing up against the truck on the shade end of the truck, right? So they're all obviously getting out of the shade. Those landscapers wear long sleeves, I imagine, so they don't get bit by something or get sunburned every day of their life. On the way back, as we're taking that left at that light, all of them are out there working on this hill, working on this landscape. All 20 of 15, 20 of them are working on this hill with long sleeve shirts on. And some of them with those Bach, you know, the. Yeah, the battaclava, like the whole face thing. And I'm like, what the are these guys thinking, man? Jesus Christ, have mercy on a stick. It is so hot. So then my genius ass decides to take a walk to Starbucks and I'm just like, it's Just a puddle everywhere I go. I'm like, in the Starbucks, having to clean up after myself. I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry for sweating all over.

[Chris Hoadley]

So everyone knows, too. I. I took a walk with you. Starbucks.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. This week you did.

[Chris Hoadley]

It was this week.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah. And it's true.

[Brian Green]

The stories are true.

[Chris Hoadley]

Everyone there knows Brian. We walked in immediately. Hi, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Hi, Brian. What you doing, Brian? How are the kids, Brian?

[Chris Hoadley]

They made a special drink for him and everything. A little pumpkin, extra pumpkin foam.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

How's your credit score?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

I see.

[Brian Green]

I see you paid your bills on time. Credit score has gone up two points.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Yes.

[Chris Hoadley]

All the rumors are true.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God, I love those people up there.

[Chris Hoadley]

They are really nice.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chris Hoadley]

I mean, and that Starbucks is great, too. It was big and airy, light. Lots of light.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. It's not one of those dark, you know, Seattle coffee. Yeah.

[Chris Hoadley]

Crowded ones with, like, stuff everywhere, and it's all dark green everywhere maybe, too.

[Brian Green]

And they just usually have like one or two or three windows. And those windows, oftentimes they're in strip malls, you know, and they're in, like, at the end. Corner. End of a building somewhere, and they only have a couple of windows, and then they always have the damn shades down. I like this Starbucks because the sh. There's no shades. They're all the light is. You know, the windows are always open. There's a ton of windows. It's very nice. You have a patio you can go sit on and listen. It's not that I am like, Starbucks thirsty. I'm not sucking on the tit of Schultz. I'm not like a total Starbucks head.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't think he's the head of Starbucks anymore.

[Brian Green]

No, he's not. But I like to. I like to say that I'm sure he's still the majority shareholder. I'm sure of it. Yeah. I think I Unilever, own Starbucks now. Ben and Jerry's or something. I wish I had a local coffee shop that I thought was as good and I could walk to, but there isn't one. There's not, because Starbucks open and took them all out of it.

[Chris Hoadley]

Exactly. Now, I know we've got a couple local ones in my neighborhood. I like it.

[Brian Green]

That's the part of town where you get the good local coffee shops.

[Chris Hoadley]

Good local restaurants and shops in general.

[Brian Green]

Appear in the north end of Atlanta. It is literally franchise city. I mean, I'm in a suburb. I'm like every other suburb. It's Waffle Houses and Macy's and Pet Suites and pet stuff and Petsmart and it's all at Walmart and Target and, you know, we have some stores, like in the downtown area of where I live, we have some stores, some mom and pop stores, but they charge an arm and a leg because they can get away with it because it's a cutesy little town that you can walk through. And so, you know, I got to deal with what I got to deal with. I'm Starbucks. Okay, sure, why not? I tried to make my own cold brew coffee, and I'm telling you right now, tastes like shite. I did it for a long time when I had to. When I did not have enough money to buy Starbucks, I did it. I did it every day and it just tasted like shite every morning. I. I don't know.

[Chris Hoadley]

I used to make my own when I drank.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, but you made coffee. This is iced coffee. It's a little bit different.

[Chris Hoadley]

There's a delicate coffee coffee maker.

[Brian Green]

I know. Well, if I could afford one. Why don't you pay for one? Buy me one. It's my birthday. Come buy me one.

[Chris Hoadley]

It is your birthday coming up soon. Exciting.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Let's just drop it. Let's just drop it. I know, I'm a yacht.

[Chris Hoadley]

It's so frustrating for other people, but it is your birthday.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. What's with all the Yiddish words, Brian? You turn. No, you turn another year older and all of a sudden you're Yiddish. I said like 45 Yiddish or something. This episode. Schwitzing Schwatzing Schultz. Love the Yiddish. I love their language because, like, kavalting, kavathing, whatever it is.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, you are kind of party pooper. But it is your day, so if that's what you would like to be. It's a total downer.

[Brian Green]

Yes. If I want to make everybody else around me miserable for one day, no one may celebrate. It'll just add to the other 57 days of every month that I'm misera.

[Chris Hoadley]

Meanwhile, I like a full month to celebrate mine.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Chrissy goes a full month. She does.

[Chris Hoadley]

And. And no. So the other day it was the, you know, August 19, which is six months before my birthday.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chris Hoadley]

February.

[Brian Green]

It's your.

[Chris Hoadley]

And I, you know, noted that to 32 and to everyone and said, it's six months till my birthday today.

[Brian Green]

I know.

[Chris Hoadley]

And Publix, just so, you know, thought the same thing.

[Brian Green]

They said, happy six month of birthday.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

They did.

[Chris Hoadley]

They sent me a happy six months until your birthday. And here's a bouquet of flowers.

[Brian Green]

Really?

[Chris Hoadley]

And an ice cream.

[Brian Green]

Really? Yes.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'm not kidding. I'll show you the email. I said, well, that's what you get.

[Brian Green]

For paying 20% more than market price every time you walk into a publix. But I agree with you. I'm with you on Publix.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, speaking of places to shop, there's no place in my area for grocery shopping. We have to do publix.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you're in a food desert over there. Yeah, but I don't want to get down this rabbit hole. But congratulations on being whatever you are. And a half. You like my kids because, you know, we have a. A new. Not a newborn, but a baby and under 3 year old. And so now we have to refer to her by halves. But I think after I was telling one of my kids, I was like, after five, I think you stop saying and a half. You know, you don't say like six and a half. That's. That's not big boy terminology. Right? You just say I'm six. You say I'm seven. And I'm certainly not going to do it in my advanced age. Although maybe I should. Maybe it's more important when you're older than when you're younger. Yeah, I'm dead and a half. That's what I am. Dead.

[Chris Hoadley]

And oh, my God, the amount of calls I'm getting and. And texts that I'm getting, I don't even. I just don't answer the phone.

[Brian Green]

Don't even get me started. No, I don't answer the phone. I will not answer the phone unless you are in my family and friends contact. Forget about it. You sometimes. Then I won't answer and I will not hesitate to. Half the people who text me are on mute. I do not want to see your text message until I want to see it, and then I will open it up. That's it. I don't want it. Ding. Want a buzzing. The only people that are supposed to buzz me are you. My family. That's on my birthday. I'm just turning my phone off. That's what I'm doing. I'm just turning it off. I don't even want to be reminded. And the only reason why Esther and I had this long, convoluted conversation about why are you like this? And I said, well, I was born this way.

[Chris Hoadley]

Why are you like this?

[Brian Green]

I was born this way. I said.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

That'S.

[Chris Hoadley]

That could be your new birthday song.

[Brian Green]

That is my birthday song. Come on, B. I was born this way. I'm an today I'm an. Hey. Hey, you baby. I was Born this way. I don't know. I'm a schmutz. I don't know. And so I said to her, I said, listen, I think the reason why is because this is just genealogy. This is pure and simple genetics. My grand great grandfather was World War I. My grandfather was World War II. My father was barely Vietnam, but he was Vietnam. These are just different kind of human beings. They lived through different stuff and they didn't talk and they, you know, they barely acknowledged each other, probably in the household. And they. Sex was utilitarian and they slept in different beds. And the truth was that celebr birthdays were not to be celebrated because your parents were mad that they were still paying for you. Another year of paying for your life. And the kids were, you know, that.

[Chris Hoadley]

Far off in age. And I did not grow up like that, so.

[Brian Green]

Well, then you had one of the good ones. But. And I. It's remarkable because I think our families are very similar, but almost never had birthday parties. Almost never. I was lucky if we got a cake and maybe a card. And on occasion. On occasion. And we're talking like 13 and under present.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'm gonna hit the sad emoji.

[Brian Green]

I know. Isn't that sound. Yeah. So it never was made a big deal of. And I had a large family, four kids. And so everybody was just kind of that way. Hey, happy birthday, dude. Yeah, Happy birthday to YouTube, bro. It's not my birthday. Okay, whatever. You know, it's just like. Actually, it is your birthday. You're my twin.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, I know. You and your brother share a birthday.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I mean, that's. It wasn't until I was probably into my late 20s that Kevin and I actually started calling each other on our birthday to say happy birthday.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

I know. And so we're manufacturing this excitement for something that's just not bred into us. And so it feels like much ado about nothing to me. That's what it feels like. I never was doted upon on my birthday as a kid. That's not to say, oh, me, poor me. It's just the way my family was. And so now why. Why am I going to start now? I mean, it's like, because you should.

[Chris Hoadley]

Be celebrating every day you're alive.

[Brian Green]

That's true. At my age, I should probably celebrate what few of them I have left.

[Chris Hoadley]

There's no time like the present. It's coming up soon, in a few days. Just do it. Make the plunge. Go, go. Go forward and be happy.

[Brian Green]

I know Astrid's gonna do. Despite all the evidence to the contrary. Astrid is going to pretend like I'm going to enjoy the day and do something special for me. I know she will, because that's what she always does. Or maybe this is the year she just dec. Maybe this is a year when she goes. I'm just listening to what you said, Brian. Just listening to what you said. And this is not like a. Like a backwards ploy for attention. This isn't reverse.

[Chris Hoadley]

No, it's not. You have always been that way with your birthdays.

[Brian Green]

I'm telling you, the one time that I've had a party, an actual party in my life, was when Astrid threw me a surprise party a number of years ago. It was a ton.

[Chris Hoadley]

We dressed up as 80s.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Even though I really spent most of my life in the 90s. But whatever. Okay. I was also alive in the 80s, but, you know, you get what I'm saying. And it was a lot of fun and I did have a great time, but I felt really embarrassed about all the intention being on me. So I'm glad my twin brother was there so he could also get some of that attention, too. But there's, like, people that I went to high school with showed up and I'm like, I didn't even know you like me in high school, let alone now. We haven't talked in 30 years. What are you doing? Why are you here? But, you know, it's my. It's my birthday, so there you go. There you have. It's my birthday.

[Chris Hoadley]

Cry if you want to cry if I want.

[Brian Green]

I will. I will cry. I should go to my therapist on my birthday is what I should do. Tell her all about it. If astronomy was smart, she'd book me a therapy appointment, a massage appointment.

[Chris Hoadley]

There you go.

[Brian Green]

And then just send me to a hotel for the rest of the day by myself. Not a good hotel. Like a Motel 6. Something like that. There you go. Enjoy the rest of your miserable sad sack life at this Motel 6. See you in the morning. Make you realize what you got. I love it. Anyway, it's my birthday. It's hot as here in Atlanta, so God bless America. I hope we get some. It's right around the corner.

[Chris Hoadley]

It is. I saw it. Supposed to be down to it's gonna happen. Cutting, cutting the heat next week.

[Brian Green]

And now, as you're listening to this, it's September. So this is the month. This is it. We're gonna be live. We're really excited about this. We Hope you're attending 24th at the Dania Improv, the 25th at the Orlando, Funnyborn, Bone, and then possibly more shows to come around the South, Southeast, and other places. We, of course, have to see how these two go. When the promoter initially offered, you know, a number of shows, we said, how about a show? What about a show?

[Chris Hoadley]

Let's just try it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, let's just try it. Mainly, I didn't want to be in the debt to the promoter. I don't want the promoter calling me for the rest of my life. Where's my money? You promised me an audience. No, I didn't. You said you thought I could get an audience. I recorded that phone call. All right. Speaking of. Speaking of. Nothing, this has. This segue, does not even work, but I'll try. Speaking of being miserable, dating is miserable in 2024, as I'm hearing from some of my friends. Just. Just miserable. And I am obsessed with this YouTube show, the Cut, which we have reviewed a couple of times. The dating show where they hit the buzzer and then you have to go off to the next one. You hit the buzzer, you have to go off to the next one. First person to hit the buzzer, the other person has to leave, and then you move on to the other thing. But lest you think. When I was watching the show the very first time, I thought there was a show once that had a buzzer, and they were. It was like a blind date with the buzzer. I remember this. You had a certain amount of time to talk to, like, five people. You would buzz onto the next person. You would buzz. When you got sick of that person, you would buzz. But I could not, for the life of me find this show. You know what? The show was called buzz, because YouTube can read my brain. It popped up, this Show Buzz from 1996, probably one of just a few episodes, as I mentioned, that never made it to air. When we get back from the break, I thought we would review one of the Buzz episodes so you can see what the 1996 version of the Cut looks like.

[Chris Hoadley]

Let's do it.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I like your enthusiasm. We'll be back.

[Christina]

Oh, my God, Christina, you're an icon and a legend. That's my impression of you when I tell you that you can officially get tickets to come see us in Florida. We'll be at danube improv on September 24th and the Funny Bone Orlando on September 25th. And both of those links are already in the show notes. So come see us and giggle your way into our little hearts. If you can't make it to Florida to win our love, don't worry. We're easy. All it takes is to follow us on Instagram, Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok at TCB podcast. Or you can text us at 212-4333, tcb and check out our website, tcbpodcast.com for all of our audio, video content and any sneaky links we might share.

[Brian Green]

All right, are you ready to get into this? Let's do it. Let's.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'm ready to rumble.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. Buzz from 1996. The point of the game. You'll get the point of the game. I think they'll explain it to you. Four singles, guy or girl? Four singles of the opposite sex. Cause this is 1996. Four singles of the opposite sex are behind a wall. Talk a little bit about themselves and they come out and they've got just a couple of seconds to make their pitch. Answer the questions from the single and you get buzzed or you don't get buzzed. Here you go. Ready, go.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Don't you wish you could just push a button and make them disappear? Well, now you can on buzz.

[Brian Green]

There audience in the history of television that is this excited about the show.

[Chris Hoadley]

And is this the same set as like Nickelodeon? I mean, it's very.

[Brian Green]

I'm sure that a lot of these were filmed on the same set as something else. But yeah, you're right, this does look like the double dare set, basically, instead of slime.

[Chris Hoadley]

Can you imagine Buzz?

[Brian Green]

Can you imagine, Mark? We gotta wrap it up quickly because we got buzz coming on next, scantily clad women and my cheese moment out to make a date. All right, so you're wrapping up so we can get the ding dongs out of here. Thanks. Appreciate it. I double dog dare you. I love that show, Double dare, by the way.

[Chris Hoadley]

It was fine.

[Brian Green]

Fucking incredible. The famous Annie Wood. What was she in? I don't think anything else.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Welcome, welcome to the show with people that have lots to say have little time to do. So we will watch as our first buzzer chooses a mate. Later on, we'll see how well they match up when they compete for cash and for that big date in simpatico round. And in the final buzz, the winning contestant will have a chance to buzz the buzzer if they so choose.

[Brian Green]

But can you imagine this young lady right here is just like, she's young in this, obviously in her 20s or maybe her early 30s or something. She probably goes to school, goes to, you know, broadcasting school or whatever, you know, fine arts, liberal arts college. She's so excited. She's been slogging her way through Hollywood just to get that big break. And someone comes up to her and says, you want to do Buzz?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

What's buzz?

[Brian Green]

I'm not sure either, but it pays $99 a day and you get free lunch. I'll do it. It's my big break. Nationally syndicated television show, Buzz. It lasted for 10 episodes. And I don't think I've ever seen this person in another thing ever.

[Chris Hoadley]

No.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

First, let's meet our first buzzer.

[Brian Green]

Kind of like us, Chrissy, this is it. This is it. Commercial break. And that was it.

[Chris Hoadley]

But we're way past 10 episodes.

[Brian Green]

Well, that's true, but that's not because the network is making a decision about whether or not we stay or go. Well, I guess they are in some sense.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

But hey, I'm rich. I mean, that's my name. I'm not really rich. I wish I was, but I just came from the heat of Orlando, Florida to the heat of la. Now I'm looking for a sweet, sensitive homebody who won't mind kicking her shoes off and getting crazy once in a while. And she better not nag me, because I hate nags.

[Brian Green]

Yackal yakka, yackel yackal yackel yackal. I hate. They're gonna love me. It's my big break. I'm gonna be on celebration.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'm not rich.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I'm not rich, but they call me rich. By the way, what is going on in 1996, 97, where guys are wearing suits, but instead of wearing a shirt and a tie under it, they are wearing large lapelled, like silk shirts. This is a style back then. I call this the smash Mouth look because I think this is how Smash Mouth looked in most of their music videos. Yes. Look at the collar on that shirt. Unbelievable.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

All right, so what's the matter with eggs? Why don't you like nags? What's the problem with nags? I don't understand why you don't like. Next.

[Brian Green]

You know, I murdered the last couple ones that were naggy. You know, just. I have a bad habit of burying people.

[Chris Hoadley]

That's why I moved all the way across the country.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I have a bad habit of tiring people up in my basem. My mom kicked me out.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

See, that's why I don't like.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Did you get a little bit? I was doing. Where are you going, my friend?

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

I'm sitting right here.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

So. So you dated?

[Brian Green]

He's sitting right there.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Nice. Is that it?

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

No, not too many.

[Brian Green]

I just stay away from him.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

I don't even.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Okay, you're not even attracting them. Nah.

[Brian Green]

All right, well, let's see what we.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Can do for you right now.

[Chris Hoadley]

I just want to point out that he just cited an example of someone being a nag as telling him to get up in the morning.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, get up in the morning.

[Chris Hoadley]

I mean, do you have a problem getting up in the morning? Because that occurs larger.

[Brian Green]

Well, to be fair, there's lots of people who get up in the afternoon. You know what I'm saying? Get up in the morning. It sounds like you got mommy issues, bro. By the way, is this the type of guy you would approach or deproach in a bar?

[Chris Hoadley]

Deproach.

[Brian Green]

Got it.

[Chris Hoadley]

Rev down.

[Brian Green]

I wanted a woman to say that.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

That's the number one. Come on outside, Richard. Hi, Richard. I'm Tina. I work for the Disney Company and I'm a huge fan of the Little Mermaid. I also am a professional line dancer in my spare time. Bring me out there and I will show you the tush push.

[Brian Green]

The tush push from the bounce dance. Oh, the tush push. The classic tush.

[Chris Hoadley]

The boot scoot and boogie.

[Brian Green]

Now, they're called pussyclapping. Pussyclapping. First of all, if you don't want to nag, a Disney adult is probably not who you want to hook up with. I'm just. Just like casting dispersions on an entire group of human beings who sometimes I might consider myself one. So there you go.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

Well, Tina, I can't bring you out now, but why don't you give me a good sample of what a tush push is?

[Brian Green]

Okay. Okay.

[Chris Hoadley]

So she's behind a wall.

[Brian Green]

She's behind a wall.

[Chris Hoadley]

That's a shadow.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, she got a.

[Chris Hoadley]

She's a shadow box shadow.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, because, you know, nothing says blind date like shadow box. Meanwhile, in Ireland.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, People are just getting naked.

[Brian Green]

They're showing your scrundle sack first.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

And there you have it. Thank you, contestant number one. Contestant number two, come on out. Say hi to Richard. Hi, Richard. I'm Cheyenne and I'm a 26 year old NYU grad. And I'm totally impulsive. I imitate birds and truck drivers. I'm hilarious. Pick me and we'll get all sloppy together.

[Brian Green]

I do heroin random on Wednesday nights. You're gonna love me. I'm crazy. The other one's like, let's plan a trip to Disney five months in advance. This one's like, hey, you wanna smoke crack in my mom's house?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Okay, question.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

Go ahead and give me your truck driver impersonation.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Hey, Baby, come on over here.

[Brian Green]

Whoa.

[Chris Hoadley]

Okay. I don't know that I would lead with my truck driver.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. Ye. I don't know that I would lead with any of that. But in my 20s, that'd probably be the girl that I would pick. If I was on Buzz, that'd be the one. I'd be like, yeah, baby, you sound crazy enough for Uncle Brian.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Number three, come on out down here. Richard. Hi, I'm Shara. I love to laugh, and I totally identify with dolphins. Like them, I'm playful, I love the water, and I'm always smiling. If you're looking for a little motion in your ocean, take the plunge with me.

[Brian Green]

If you're looking for a little motion in my ocean, why do people say stuff like that back in the 90s? Because I know I did all those cliche. Give me the. You got cushion for the pushing, baby. You got a little ocean in your motion. If this trailer's a rockin', don't come and I can't. I did that. I know I did. I know I said stuff like that. I'm not sure my comedy's evolved all that much, but, you know that was me.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

Go ahead and tell me that you love me.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

I love you. Let's go swim in my ocean. Thank you for swimming.

[Brian Green]

Okay, that was a little creepy, the way she moved her body when she said that. By the way, who are we picking so far? I'm going for number two, I think based on silhouette alone, I'd go for number three. But number two, I think, is just crazy enough to satisfy my. My insane.

[Chris Hoadley]

What do you.

[Brian Green]

Where you go?

[Chris Hoadley]

I might go three right now.

[Brian Green]

Three. Okay, three. I like it. I like where you're going.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Come on outside, Richard. Hey, I'm Celeste. I'm totally flexible. In fact, I can cross my legs Indian style and walk on my knees. My goal in life is to fall in love, just like the movie Sixteen Candles.

[Brian Green]

Celeste, I have absolutely no tone in my voice that makes me a murderer. Hi, my name is Celeste. I like to kill men, and while they're sleeping, I dream about cutting your throat open while you're doing emails at work.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Do it. Okay, great. Thank you, contestants. Good work.

[Brian Green]

Oh, no.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

All right, Richard, you know what happens now?

[Chris Hoadley]

That's the response.

[Brian Green]

Four. Yeah. Yeah. You're going number four.

[Chris Hoadley]

No, I'm saying there were four.

[Brian Green]

There were four.

[Chris Hoadley]

There's four.

[Brian Green]

I'm going number two. Chrissy's got number three. I think we both agree that one and four just aren't for one. Reason or the other aren't good. I do have to mention about the host here, that that hair is cartoonishly blonde.

[Chris Hoadley]

It is very platinum.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that was a style back then. It was. Yeah. Jenny McCarthy and all those other ones.

[Christina]

Yeah.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Then you must eliminate. Who's it going to be?

[Brian Green]

I'll go with number two.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Number two, Cheyenne.

[Chris Hoadley]

Bye bye. Your person.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

What happened? What went wrong?

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

I don't know. I guess all four is just like a tough choice. So I had a sort of.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

So you just went eeny, meeny, miny, moe, didn't you?

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

I mean, the cork out things.

[Brian Green]

This is an embarrassment of riches. They all seem so awesome. I've actually never had to choose between two, so I don't know what to do here. It's great, but not to your liking.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Okay, have a seat, my friend. I'm gonna tell you the rules of the game.

[Brian Green]

He's got the personality. A snow pea so far. So, yeah, this is. It's not the guy that probably had kind of guy who probably has much luck at like in like the.

[Chris Hoadley]

So he had to go on the show.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Two minutes. Have a conversation. As soon as you realize that this person just is not the gal for you, pick up that buzzer, buzz her, and I will escort her off the stage. Okay. On the other hand, you like her. Pick up the bell, ring a ding, ding, there's your chick. Okay, two minutes. If you buzz. If you buzz them.

[Brian Green]

Okay, listen, Warner Brothers, the production cost on this is really low. We need a buzzer and a bell. Can you do that? Can you get me a buzzer? A bell in a shadow box? Sure. Take the double dare set or the.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Two minutes should run out. You're gonna get the chick that you have no reason. You eliminate her, but you just had to eliminate one.

[Brian Green]

Ready to go?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Okay, you ready? Who do you wanna see first?

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

Let's bring out Tina.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Tina Kent. That's a new one, Tina. She's a huge fan. A Little Mermaid. You have two minutes on your mark. It's sitting. Go.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

All right, Tina. If you were a toy doll.

[Brian Green]

She's cute. She's cute. I do have to say she's cute.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

What would you say when I pulled you string?

[Brian Green]

If you were a toy doll? What would you say when I pulled your string? Where are you getting these questions? Yeah, you know, the producers write these. You know they do.

[Chris Hoadley]

Had to.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. This guy does not have personality to drum up this kind of question. He's probably like, what you doing on Saturday?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Say touch me, tease me, squeeze me.

[Brian Green]

Oh, what Would you name me?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

What would I name you? I'd name you Cuddles.

[Chris Hoadley]

Why would she name him?

[Brian Green]

I don't know. That's true. Says, when does the doll start naming people? He's a flustered. He doesn't know what to do. Some hot chick just came out and started talking to him, and he has no clue what to do.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

How about a psychology test here? Okay. I brought some ink diagrams here. Go ahead and tell me what you see in this picture.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

You and me on the beach doing. Taking a walk when it's the moon's setting and we just are just in love.

[Brian Green]

This is why this show didn't make it past 11.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

I'm already asleep. This is the most boring.

[Chris Hoadley]

I wouldn't see Naked Attraction.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, we'll review that soon, too. I do have an episode that I found particularly interesting. This is like. This is so tame, even for the 90s. This is so tame and silly and stupid and all. If you give people two minutes, like, the cut is interesting because these kids are really biting. Like, they're willing to say anything and do anything. This is made for television. Poppy. It's not even. Like, there's some of these shows that get. Get a little. Like, the innuendos go way far or.

[Chris Hoadley]

It'S even a love connection.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Like, hypersexual. This guy is not hypersexual. This guy. And these questions are silly.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, he's gonna buzzer.

[Brian Green]

Why did you. You buzz her?

[Chris Hoadley]

He didn't like the walk on the beach.

[Brian Green]

Dude, you've never even had a kiss before. Why are you doing this? You don't like the walk on the beach? What was she supposed to say? Honestly, it was like one of those. What do you call them? Rorschach tests. It was a Rorschach test. It looked like a woman with her legs open and. What, she. She made it into the moonwalk on the beach or what? I. That would have been a perfectly acceptable answer. What was she supposed to say?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

I don't know. That's what I saw too. I saw the exact same thing.

[Chris Hoadley]

How the hell. I was just, like, shuffling.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Headphones on. They all do. They can't hear anything.

[Brian Green]

There you go. Yeah. See you later. Got bills to pay, commercials to do. 22 minutes left to do two more of these. What? What?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

What happened?

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

Nah, she was definitely cute.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Yeah. What, was she wrong?

[Brian Green]

I don't know. I felt myself getting an erection, and my mommy told me erections are bad. I had to go.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

You guys on the beach?

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

I mean, we were on the beach. I could see that. Totally.

[Brian Green]

But what?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Give me an answer.

[Brian Green]

Why? Why?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

I just did. Didn't like her.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

Just didn't like her.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Sometimes that's how simple it can be.

[Christina]

Thanks, man.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Work with me here. Who you want to see next?

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

Let's bring.

[Brian Green]

Even the host is begging him to have some personality.

[Chris Hoadley]

Give me something else.

[Brian Green]

Talk to me, Talk to me.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Number three is.

[Brian Green]

I imagine this guy is like an out of work actor. Like a. Like an extra television commercial from Orlando.

[Chris Hoadley]

To LA to get into acting.

[Brian Green]

And by the way, strangely enough, so did his last date. Date, who also happened to be a Disney mermaid who moved out.

[Chris Hoadley]

That's right. Here's number three.

[Brian Green]

Look at him. He's playing with his hair. He's flirting like a woman. He doesn't even have any hair and he's playing with his hair.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

All right, be totally honest. If you had to change one thing about my looks, what would the first thing be?

[Brian Green]

Probably everything. Probably like. Like from the head to the toe part.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

I don't think I change a thing.

[Brian Green]

And being on camera induces such a fake need to be like, she has to say these things. Like she has to say something nice.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

If we got in her head. Look at the way she looks at this guy. If we got inside of her head, she would be like everything. But she's on TV, so. And it's 1996, so she can't say anything mean about him.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

That's good.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

Okay, pretend I'm your therapist. And what would be your biggest problem right now?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

My biggest problem is I just moved out and I don't have enough time to find all my stuff to put in. I was wondering if I needed a little help.

[Chris Hoadley]

I just moved out, can't find all my stuff.

[Brian Green]

I just can't find enough time to.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Put in my house.

[Chris Hoadley]

I was wondering if I needed help.

[Brian Green]

Is so incredibly lame.

[Chris Hoadley]

I know. It's bad.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Oh.

[Chris Hoadley]

So he just chose her.

[Brian Green]

Oh. Based on the two questions that he asked and the incredibly dumb responses. He chose her. Probably because the guys told him it's time to wrap it up.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, you got to get going.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

You kept looking over at me like I was going to give you an answer.

[Brian Green]

Why'd you pick a horse, Mike? Guess is there's not even an audience there because everybody's screaming the exact same way every time they scream. And no one gets this excited about television this dumb. No one?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

No. Beautiful.

[Chris Hoadley]

And it's the most bizarre set I've.

[Brian Green]

Ever seen is it's like. You ever see that Tom Petty Video don't come around here no more.

[Chris Hoadley]

Of course, yeah. Okay. The Alice in Wonderland thing.

[Brian Green]

This is what it reminds me of. It reminds me of the Tom Petty set.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

You just moved out here. I just moved out here. The dolphins.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

You liked him. Okay, now we're gonna meet one of the girls that you don't have a chance. He like it. That's the number four. Celeste, come on out.

[Chris Hoadley]

Number four didn't even get a shot.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Oh.

[Brian Green]

Oh, hello.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

That's all she had to say. So, man, you still happy? Happy? Yeah, I'm happy.

[Brian Green]

I'm generally happy.

[Chris Hoadley]

Generally bad.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

So we're going to see the gal you eliminated number one, because that's a number two. Cheyenne, come on out.

[Chris Hoadley]

That here was your pick.

[Brian Green]

This is my pick.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Oh, well, Dick.

[Brian Green]

Oh, oh. Oh, well, Dick, I like Cheyenne, okay? She's not the looker in the bunch, but I like her.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Well, that's your name. May you have me. That's your name. All right, I'm gonna suffer hate here. So next time I see you, we'll be simpatic around. We'll be right back. Don't go away.

[Chris Hoadley]

What's the simpatico round?

[Brian Green]

Oh, well, the simpatico round is when you. You ask additional questions about each other. No, I think the sympatico round is when the host asks questions and you just. You answer, like, yes, no, or does work. Doesn't work. Something along those lines behind a screen. So you see if you two are answering the same way about more incredibly dumb questions. But of course, we're in it now, Chrissy, So we can't get out. We just got to finish down the hole. We've gone down the rabbit hole. I knew this would happen. I actually watched this episode and I was like this. This is the lamest television show I've ever seen. I have to let Chrissy watch it. All right, so let's do this. Let's take a break. We'll be back with the simpatico round where we find out whether you win tons of cash and prizes like $600. We'll be back after these words.

[Christina]

Hello, my fans. I mean, Brian and Chrissy's fans. Boy, have I got news for you. We are officially coming to Florida for TCB Live. That's right, you can come. Come see Brian's bald head shining under the stage lights at Danube improv on Tuesday, September 24, and at the Funny Bone in Orlando on Wednesday, September 25. If you can't make it to see us in person, text us or call us at 212-4333 TCB. And leave us a little love note instead. As always, please, please, please follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok@TCBP podcast. Our content is shockingly good, so get after it. And you already know I put every single one of those links in the show notes. You're welcome.

[Brian Green]

All right, we're back with the 90s dating television show that took the world by storm. Buzz spelled. Not even spelled. Buzz spelled.

[Chris Hoadley]

We're finding out why tonight lasts very long.

[Brian Green]

Yes, we're finding out why this has not even become a cult classic in its old age. I think this video had 900, 136 views when I saw it on YouTube when it came up on YouTube. So the two lovebirds have found each other through an extra incredibly strange and lame process known as buzzing. I don't even know. I don't. You go listen. Why would you be here actually if you didn't listen to the first part? Why am I saying this? This is a whole different episode.

[Chris Hoadley]

Jumped in the middle.

[Brian Green]

I know. Now we're getting to the sympatico round. Here's what it is. These two people are going to be separated by a screen they will not be able to see.

[Chris Hoadley]

This is where the rubber meets the road.

[Brian Green]

This is where the rubber meets the road. Either this is serendipity that you met at the Tom bed at the old Tom Petty video, Seth, also known as Double Dare, or you're just gonna go on your way with no gifts and nothing. But you do now have something for your actor and actress.

[Chris Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

That you can show around town for other dating shows you could be on. By the way, in the 90s, the 90s were notorious. And there are like six or seven that I could point to. And maybe one day we'll go through through this. The eight. The 90s were notorious for silly dating shows like this. They were all over the place. They would run late night in the afternoons. They were syndicated, so they'd pop up on random television stations. Some. Sometimes you would see them in one market, but they wouldn't be in another market or whatever because syndication was becoming a thing. But then the other thing is, is that they were notorious for having the same people go on different shows all the time. So when you saw one person on a dating show and they happen to have a particular personality that was boisterous or, you know, outgoing, or a girl who would wear scan, be scantily clad and say weird, strange, outgoing things, then she would be on the Next dating show. Also because the casting directors would just keep casting the same people over and over again knowing that, yeah, we may not get an actual date out of this, but who cares? That's not the point. The point is to get ratings and sell commercials. So I don't think either of these two people are who we're talking about. But here we go to the sympatical rank round of buzz. Let's. Let's get back to it.

[Chris Hoadley]

Here's a buzzer.

[Brian Green]

Oh, okay. So let's move. There we go. Let's move past this real quick. Where's the simpatico round? Where's the simpatico round?

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, no.

[Brian Green]

Oh, no. What happened to the simpatico round? Oh, no.

[Chris Hoadley]

It just jumped right into.

[Brian Green]

It just jumped. Oh, there. There it is. Here it is. Sorry, it went this way backwards. Okay, but I want to get to the prizes and cash that they're going to win in Chrissy, because this is big time stuff. You don't want to. I wish. I wish Astor and I had started our relationship off like this, actually.

[Chris Hoadley]

Was this a simpatico round where you.

[Brian Green]

Win cash and prizes? Yeah.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

And Richard. Sh. And Richard. Are you guys ready to win big in sympatico?

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

We're ready.

[Brian Green]

We're gonna get it.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Before we play, I'm gonna tell you a little bit about the date you're playing for. And it is dinner for two at Tommy Tang.

[Chris Hoadley]

Tommy.

[Brian Green]

Oh, Tommy T. Good old Tommy Tang.

[Chris Hoadley]

It's well known still around.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. I'm telling you what? When you want to have a night on the town. When you want to have a night on the town, you don't want to clown around. Come to Tommy Tangs for the best in live entertainment and wings. Tommy Tangs. Tommy Tank.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

I love it.

[Brian Green]

I want to Tommy Tangs. I want to go to Tommy Tangs for a date.

[Chris Hoadley]

Hey, baby, meet me at the Tang.

[Brian Green]

Hey, girl, it's me, Carl. Listen, I know we're not supposed to see each other as per the clergy and U.S. district Attorney's office, but step outside your mom's house. I'm gonna come by, I'm gonna take you to Tommy Tang's, girl, you know, you know I got that twang for Tommy. I'll show you my wang. And Tommy, you want a gang bang? You want a gang bang at the Tommy Tang. Oh, baby, let's go hang at Tommy Tang's. I could go get a drink up there. I'm gonna go get a.

[Chris Hoadley]

There's so many ways to go with it.

[Brian Green]

That's right. I'm gonna go get a Tommy Tang twang. You know what that is? It's a cosmopolitan with orange juice that's all the rage. North L. A.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'm gonna look up Tommy Tang.

[Brian Green]

Tommy Tanks. I want a Tommy Tank in my neighborhood. What the fuck, Atlanta, get your together. I never heard of Tommy Tanks until this moment right now. And I love it. You Google this.

[Chris Hoadley]

I am.

[Brian Green]

Immediately. And find out if there's a Tommy Tangs we can go to. Because if there is, we're gonna do an episode from there. We're gonna go TCB live from Tommy Tangs Tags.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, Tommy Tang's modern Thai cuisine.

[Brian Green]

Oh, okay. There you go. Where are they located?

[Chris Hoadley]

Bangkok. I don't know.

[Brian Green]

Oh, is there's no US based Tommy Tang. Oh, that's a shame.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't see it.

[Brian Green]

What a shame about Tommy Tang.

[Chris Hoadley]

It didn't last.

[Brian Green]

Well, I wonder why. Because I just don't think you want to go eat at a place called Tommy Tango.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Pacific Rim restaurants, LA's hot spots for the entertainment industry. Enjoy an evening of great food created by celebrity chef Tommy Tang. Ambiance and fun from Tommy Tang's restaurants and you'll each receive for your in home enjoyment. KLH introduces that H2 200 system stereo system.

[Brian Green]

Wow. A stereo system complete with a very large set of speakers. Those things are huge. Geez. But that's all the rage back then. And I guess those are stands. You hang them off your wall. Yeah, I guess that was state of the art back then. What is that? It's a $150 pack system perfectly matched.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

To deliver exceptional clarity for the true theater experience at home. From klh.

[Chris Hoadley]

You get dinner in hysteria.

[Brian Green]

They call that Dinner in Dolby, baby. Dinner in Dolby.

[Chris Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Dinner in Dolby 1.0.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

I might add the same wall and the game the buzzer picked before the show. Boy, chance is correct it, ignore it. You take that. You take that 100 bucks for every matching answer. If you get all seven right, you, my friends, will leave with $1,000. If these conditions existed in your house or apartment, would you be likely to correct it or ignore it? A stereo speaker with a hum.

[Chris Hoadley]

A stereo.

[Brian Green]

A stereo speaker with a hum. How is this gonna determine your future love? What are we talking about, Mouth?

[Chris Hoadley]

Okay, they both said they would correct that.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

A hairbrush that looks like a bird's nest. There we go.

[Chris Hoadley]

And they're a love.

[Brian Green]

Oh, this is it, Chrissy. They're going the distance. I bet if we look up right Now Charlie and Sharla are just. Is it Charlie? What's his name?

[Chris Hoadley]

I think it was Richard.

[Brian Green]

I don't even remember. Rich and Charla. It doesn't even sound good together. Rich and Charla. If. If we look it up. These. These two have kids. He's like a city councilman. She's on the board of the pta. This. This is a match made in heaven. Chrissy.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Direct it or ignore it. A slow dripping faucet.

[Brian Green]

That's a red flag if I've ever seen one. Ignore her is what I say.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Quite some sound effects you got going there, Richard. Correct it or ignore it. A cloudy fish tank.

[Contestant or participant on Buzz]

Cloudy fish.

[Brian Green]

Tape corrected. Who would allow the fish tank? I guarantee the fish would probably not. Ignore it.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

300 bucks. You careful there, Richard.

[Brian Green]

This is the.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Remind me. Correct it or ignore it. Your ex flames pile of belongings. Yeah. No.

[Brian Green]

Who's going to leave. Yeah, who's going to leave? Your ex's all over your head house. What?

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Correct it or ignore it. A mattress that needs to be turned over.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. I don't think they do that anymore. I don't think that's a thing anymore, but Okay. I don't think you're supposed to turn your mattress over anymore.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

You still got 400 bucks. Correct it or ignore it. A dead battery. A dead battery. A better battery. A dead battery in the smoke alarm. What's up? They got five out of seven. Do you think you guys can beat that?

[Brian Green]

There's another couple and now. Yeah, I don't. I don't know what happens. I guess they go to tangs and they. They go to tanks, and they get twang. I'm not even sure how it works. I don't know what to say about this. This television show is a hot mess from beginning to end, and how it ever survived 10 episodes, I don't know. I mean, there's a network executive out there that is no longer a negative network executive out there because of this television show. It's got to be buzz. I wonder how. I. I think it's 10 episodes. I'm. I'm gonna. Let's look at this Buzz dating show. I'm gonna look this up while we're just sitting here.

[Chris Hoadley]

There's a. There's a thing in the bottom right corner that says buzzer.

[Brian Green]

Oh, is it buzzer? Oh, I thought it was buzz. Well, it says buzz here, but I don't know. Let's see. Buzz and American Game show. Oh, it actually lasted for two years.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

Excuse me. Wow. That's a Lot longer than I would have anticipated anybody would have put up with this crazy crap. Oh, it's got a Wikipedia page. It's a Stu Billet production, Chrissy. Stu put a. Put. Stu put together quite a few number of seasons. Two. How many episodes, though? I want to know how many episodes did this. The premise, it doesn't even say how many episodes. No one even bothered to count how many episodes of this show there were.

[Chris Hoadley]

Like, it's time for it to go.

[Brian Green]

It aired on Saturday nights from February to July in 1996 and 1997, with reruns continuing on some stations until 2001.

[Chris Hoadley]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

Geez. And then aired again. Aired again from 20 during the pandemic from February to July, aired again. Oh, buzzer. Buzzer ran again. So there was a second version of this called Buzzer.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, that's what it says.

[Brian Green]

Well, this. I think that this is. This is. This said 1996 when it. When I saw it, when like I pulled it from the Archives. 1996. But it is just unbelievably crazy that this show even made it two seasons. I can't believe that. Terrible. Why would you watch this? Well, we just did. But, you know, we have a comedy show that we like to make fun of people on. Well, Chrissy, meet me at Tangs.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'll. I'll meet you at Tangs.

[Brian Green]

I think we're getting a T shirt made that says meet me at Tanks. Tcb. Meet me at Tanks. Meet me at Tanks.

[Chris Hoadley]

That was the funniest thing.

[Brian Green]

We're getting. Gonna get banged up a Tanged up. Oh, I'd love to go to a Tanks now. I want to go to a Tank.

[Chris Hoadley]

I just sent you information about it.

[Brian Green]

About Tommy Tanks.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, it was closed, but it was in la.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah, well, that's a shame.

[Chris Hoadley]

It was on Melrose.

[Brian Green]

It was in and. Oh, it was what? There was one. It was in Melrose. The price was two dollar signs out of six. I guess it was affordable. I bet there's a lot of stories from Tommy Tanks.

[Chris Hoadley]

I bet people do have some stories.

[Brian Green]

Have you been doing Tommy Tanks? If you've been to a Tommy Tanks, I want to talk to you on air. I want to talk to you 212-4333. TCB. 212-434-33-3822. Comments, questions, concerns, content, ideas, Tommy Tang stories. Also, if you're gonna be in the Dania beach or Orlando area on the 24th or 25th, please come see us. You know it. We've been saying it ad nauseam. We will say it ad nauseam for another 22 days. We're gonna be ad the dania improv on the 24th. We're going to be at the funny bone on the 25th. Come see us. We got a special show lined up for you. I know you're going to love it. Christina is going to be down there. Astrid's going to be down there. I think even Tina is going to be down there.

[Chris Hoadley]

Jeff's going to be at one of them.

[Brian Green]

Jeff's going to be at one of them. Chrissy and I may show up. We're still trying to figure we're still trying to figure out whether we're going to show up. But you never know. Surprises abound. All right, go to the website tcbpodcast.com More information about the show. All the audio, all the video, all there, right in one location. You can also buy your tickets from a link on the website or down in the show notes here or on our link on instagram or at the comedy clubs themselves, any of those places. Get your tickets. Don't go to no man's other website. Stay right here. Get them from us. Also, we'd love it if you would follow us on Instagram at the commercial break TCB podcast on tick tock and YouTube.com the commercial break for all of our interviews, selected clips and episodes. Please subscribe like on your favorite video. We just love you to death. We really appreciate you. I'm just wasting time now. Okay, Chrissy. That's all I can do for now.

[Chris Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

But I'll tell you that I love you.

[Chris Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you to you. Best you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time. Chrissy and I always say, we do say and we must say good goodbye.

[Brian Green (voice actor or narrator)]

Sam.