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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: sonicdork on December 21, 2015, 11:11:12 AM

Title: The Best Of 2015
Post by: sonicdork on December 21, 2015, 11:11:12 AM
I posted about this on Twitter - but thought I'd ask the questions here as well!

What were your favorite S&W calls from 2015?
Many have said Newbridge Wall, Bruce from Rumson, Raccoon Face, Bryce final Dead show,

Best listener calls from 2015?
Bebe, Mattress Man, Avalanche Bob, Charley Morgan, etc.

Best Tom non-call bits from 2015?
Showbiz Crimes, Worst Celeb iPod, Sound Collage, The Patti Smith Story, etc.

If you want to go the EXTRA MILE, let me know the date of the show your selection was in or at least what show it was in.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?!?!
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: Carver on December 21, 2015, 01:07:22 PM
That Bryce final Dead show was my favorite.
The part about during the half hour songs the Dead guys are up there working on cars and no one notices. Funniest thing I heard all year.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: Omar on December 21, 2015, 01:49:30 PM
In terms of guests (in-studio or via phone), Kevin McDonald on 9/23/15.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: Bridgey on December 21, 2015, 04:23:23 PM
S&W bits: Newbridge wall (obviously), Mark Rample, Chad Gufton from Pepperbridge and his many bands.

Calls: Avalanche Bob's first, Imogen from Portland and her godmother (?), Angus from Edinburrow and his British cultural educatings of Tom.

Non-calls: Mike Francesa ribbing, Sasparilla the Singing Gorilla, the Sound Collage with added "Touch me"

Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: RReynolds on December 21, 2015, 04:39:07 PM
Elevator Shame, Chad Gufton from Pepperbridge, Newbridge Wall and Bee Gees Whiz
 
The creation of the Scorcese-verse. Kevin Corrigan's acting clinic. The revival of Staten Island Garbage Rats. Nathan Fielder and Tom talking about Sully Sullenberger.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: AllSussedOut on December 21, 2015, 05:35:59 PM
January 21, towards the end of the show.  Faceless Man - Worn ("Tom asks the listeners to help identify the one untagged song in his iTunes").

April 15? - "Name My Band" with Julie Klausner.

May 1 - One on One with Gary the Squirrel - Andy Kindler.

November 11 - Mary Houlihan.

Anything to do with AP Mike's songs, of course.

Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: erg79 on December 21, 2015, 06:33:44 PM
Besides all of Bebe's calls, my favorite listener call that I can remember off the top of my head was the birth of Toronto's Sex Dwarf Alex.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: kouzie on December 22, 2015, 09:47:09 AM
Lots to love, but the one that immediately comes to mind is the Garrett Thanksgiving dinner conversation.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: josh c on December 22, 2015, 02:37:46 PM
Lots to love, but the one that immediately comes to mind is the Garrett Thanksgiving dinner conversation.

This and the Bryce Dead call.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on December 23, 2015, 03:10:12 AM
The Jim Morrison Diner along with Julie Klausner's Morrison impression, anything about the Oakwood, The Best and Worst Character lists, Tony Soprano's "who's dis?" making the collage, The Newbridge Wall. That's all off the top of my head.

As for callers Grace the Lawyer is top notch, Bebe, all of the Bowling Alley confessors, the boozy film student who calls into the HHOP, Angus from Edenbrough, as well as all the returning greats.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: Krokodil_Gena on December 24, 2015, 07:35:23 PM
Ones I liked: the Philly Boy Roy call in the summer where the killer statue stabs him in the end, or the Wurster call where David Miscavige (name mispronounced) attacks the caller, Mattress Man, the Dawn of Peeping Last Callers, and how Tom hung up on me for being a Russian-speaking wiseass.

Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: Joe Rogaine on December 24, 2015, 09:58:28 PM
Anything Charlie Morgan related.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: dave in the yard on December 25, 2015, 03:57:36 AM
I second the Kevin Corrigan in-studio, his musings on Rambo and Goodfellas, "Oh yea?", were great.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: Krokodil_Gena on December 25, 2015, 03:54:39 PM
Anything Charlie Morgan related.

How could I forget? I second that.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: frank_lee on December 27, 2015, 11:12:07 PM
My vote for favorite show theme is Worst Fictional Characters of All Time.

Favorite S&W bit was Percy Hobart's "Ultimate Boner" call on 7/24.

Favorite AP Mike moments: "Get on the Mike" and the uniquely creepy "yoga pants" comment.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: claedalus on December 28, 2015, 10:50:05 AM
I have no idea what category it could qualify for since it technically happened on the HHOP, but Mike's "clown in a porno shop" story is one of my favorite moments from the history of the Best Show. "We all have our needs..."
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: MarkS on December 28, 2015, 07:49:57 PM
I posted about this on Twitter - but thought I'd ask the questions here as well!

What were your favorite S&W calls from 2015?
Many have said Newbridge Wall, Bruce from Rumson, Raccoon Face, Bryce final Dead show,

Best listener calls from 2015?
Bebe, Mattress Man, Avalanche Bob, Charley Morgan, etc.

Best Tom non-call bits from 2015?
Showbiz Crimes, Worst Celeb iPod, Sound Collage, The Patti Smith Story, etc.

If you want to go the EXTRA MILE, let me know the date of the show your selection was in or at least what show it was in.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?!?!

Tim Heidecker as the Muppet insider was great and the sound collage of Joe Rogan lifting weights brings me into hysterics.
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: Mike Desert on December 30, 2015, 12:21:21 PM
when Charlie Morgan swore and Tom and Mike's reaction
Title: Re: The Best Of 2015
Post by: dave in the yard on January 12, 2016, 09:58:49 AM
This is a little late for the best of show, but I just remembered one of the funniest things of the year was when Tom was talking about how the streets were always wet in Eyes Wide Shut, and then how H-Man chimed in with how it's called a "wet-down".  Everything about that was perfect.