Underrated Best Show Strengths

[Mr. Spacely]

The fact that Jon and Tom have done hundreds of calls and I can count on one hand the number that have broken up due to bad connections or disconnects.

I can only assume Jon has a sound-proof bunker, with an old-fashioned wired hardline in every major city. Either that, or hotel managers and neighbors are wonderfully tolerant of him screaming into the phone/threatening to stomp somebody for 45 minutes every Tuesday.

[Mr. Spacely]

Also, Tom's one-off rivalry with "OldHamburger."

[Bryan]

I love it when Tom trolls the listeners - like insisting that obviously the Flintstones predates the Honeymooners, because [exasperated, stating the obvious:] the Flintstones is in caveman times, and the Honeymooners was in the 50s. And even better when he goes onto Wikipedia to read supporting evidence for his claims.

[King of Breakfast]

Also I've invented a new technique where I concentrate on the Best Show until I begin to levitate. I got eight feet into the air during a particularly long Spike call. The problem is that I didn't have any success until Tom started talking about demons. Could WFMU have become a locus of extradimensional hell-energy that we can access by listening? We might be playing with fire here, people.

[Barry in Ireland]

Yeah? Well maybe I wanna get burned.

[Alex P.]

I always smile when Tom refers to someone as "troubled."

[fonpr]

Yeah? Well maybe I wanna get burned.

"I don't know what that means."

[buffcoat]

The off the cuff calls that rank among the best:

The first Zeph call (I think)
Nils from Matador
CNN Crawl Guy/Gleason Jones is dead

[bonnaventure]

It took me a little while to realize how two completely opposite elements are really funny:

Good callers who tee Tom up and let him go on great diatribes and rants (Dan from Orange killed it with the Comic Book Men discussion, never stepped on Tom's Toes)
Terrible callers that upset Tom or who ruin Tom's flow and set themselves, and every caller after complete disaster (I tend to fall in to this category)

[Martin]

The off the cuff calls that rank among the best:

The first Zeph call (I think)
Nils from Matador
CNN Crawl Guy/Gleason Jones is dead

+ Jimmy Crespo

[buffcoat]

The off the cuff calls that rank among the best:

The first Zeph call (I think)
Nils from Matador
CNN Crawl Guy/Gleason Jones is dead

+ Jimmy Crespo

Yes!  "You put on a shirt and tie when you talk to me."

[Christina]

When Tom baits people who say crypto-racist stuff.

[gravy boat]

The off the cuff calls that rank among the best:

The first Zeph call (I think)
Nils from Matador
CNN Crawl Guy/Gleason Jones is dead

+ Jimmy Crespo

Yes!  "You put on a shirt and tie when you talk to me."

"Maybe for you!"

[Barry in Ireland]

When Tom baits people who say crypto-racist stuff.

"Right? The 'financiers', right? 'Studio executives', right?"

[Crusherkc]

When Tom baits people who say crypto-racist stuff.

"Right? The 'financiers', right? 'Studio executives', right?"

"We're talking about 'them' right?  You know how 'they' are, right?"