Now that we've put our champagne flutes in the dishwasher and peeled off our Spanx, we're ready to look back on the 2015 Emmy awards telecast, from how much funnier Andy Samberg was than the stiffs in the room to the feelings we experienced watching Jon Hamm literally climb on stage to accept his statuette -- and thank God Joe Reid was able to return to the podcast and join us. After Liv gives us her report on the latest Face Off, Sarah debuts a new segment, The Blotter Presents, covering all manner of true crime TV, starting with the 1986 Ted Bundy miniseries The Deliberate Stranger. Around The Dial makes stops at Best Time Ever, So You Think You Can Dance, Project Runway, and Fargo. Mark makes a brief cameo to update us on a past Tiny Triumph and -- spoiler alert! -- it's quite a bit less Tiny than it used to be. Joe makes the case for the induction of the Best Friends Forever episode "Butt Dial" into the Canon, and then after a more overstuffed Winners and Losers segment than usual, it's on to a Game Time that has us pondering wheels within wheels. Grab some sliders and crab puffs and listen in!

Episode Rundown

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:20 The Emmys
00:29:00 Face Off Report
00:35:10 The Blotter Presents: The Deliberate Stranger
00:39:30 Sponsor: EHG Ads
00:40:25 Best Time Ever
00:43:35 So You Think You Can Dance
00:48:00 Project Runway
00:49:00 Fargo
00:53:15 Tiny Triumph
00:58:00 The Canon: Best Friends Forever The Butt Dial
01:17:30 Winner and Loser(s) of the Week
01:24:20 Game Time: Wheels Within Wheels
01:40:50 Outro

Show Notes

Source: Giphy

• Above: Regina King's fellow nominees celebrate her win
• Ellie Kemper's Emmy gown
• The Blotter, sponsor of "The Blotter Presents" segment
• Tara's New Show Fact Sheet on Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris
• EHG 71, in which Sarah helped Mark prep for baseball categories on Jeopardy!
• Adam Grosswirth on Once Upon A Time's same-sex romance

Just saw this expression on Tracy Morgan's baby and had to take the rest of the day off. pic.twitter.com/KDBqbr5iye

— Tara Ariano (@TaraAriano) September 21, 2015