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[cavorting with nudists]

One of the finest phrases I have encountered via the Best Show is "a would-be lidblower on metro area malcontents."

[Kormodd]

From the main blurb I wrote¹ for the Spike Best Show trading card²:
The Proud Democrat and devout disciplinarian cemented his legend with Weirdos Exposed, a would-be lidblower on metro area malcontents that was in fact a spoken-word memoir of the man himself Scott.

Probably my favorite thing about that entire call.

[Omar]

One of the finest phrases I have encountered via the Best Show is "a would-be lidblower on metro area malcontents."

Thanks!

[JonFromMaplewood]

"For the sake of conversation, let's say this book does not exist."

Oh my god I forgot about that. That is stellar.

[emma]

Yeah, fair enough. It's probably one of those things that have developed over such a long time that it's unfair to judge it after just hearing where it's at and not how it got there. Sorta like the Jackass movies: If you've watched it from the beginning you know everyone is at an equal footing, but if you come it at the wrong time you might think it was bullying.

Thanks, Jason.

If you are at all inclined toward completism or are curious about the origins of Spike on the best show it is well worth it (?) to go waaaay back into the archives to before he was the Spike we all know and love today, when he would just call and go "WHERE'S DEBBIE?" and that was it. The Story of Spike has been a beautiful, slow unfurling; a caterpillar climbing into a cocoon and emerging a misogynist, doo-wop/soap-loving, (maybe?) (probably not) dungeonmaster.

[buffcoat]

I've back-listened through the whole book thing and into Tom's growing (shrinking?) disenchantment with Spike saying the same thing every time he calls.  It's like that last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.  "The anomaly is bigger in the päst!"

[Flood]

I have gone way back but I cannot find the exact first episode that Tom was successful in actually engaging Spike beyond his Debbie & Sadie catch phrases.

[Kevin from Pittsburgh]

I have gone way back but I cannot find the exact first episode that Tom was successful in actually engaging Spike beyond his Debbie & Sadie catch phrases.

There were a few shows in mid-late 2005 that may qualify.  But January 2006 lays the groundwork for soap opera fan, government employee, 4 boroughs, Republicans and 'Oh, it's Spike'.