0001: Doctor Who, Community, Wipeout, more

Air date: 23 July, 2010

Description: Pop Culture Happy Hour is a very special audio experiment in which NPR's Linda Holmes sits down for a chat with some of Monkey See's favorite people about television, movies, and other oddities of popular entertainment. In this episode: Wipeout, Doctor Who, Community, Knight and Day and so much more, including a pop quiz.

Hosts: Linda, Stephen, Trey, Glen (Mike Katzif)

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What's Making Us Happy?

 * Stephen: Wipeout (1:10)
 * Trey: Netflix Instant Streaming (5:18)
 * Glen: New Season Dr Who, specifically Vincent and the Doctor (7:48)
 * Linda: 80s movies at the AFI at Silver Spring including Clue, Caddyshack, Fletch (11:20)

Episode Notes

 * First episode!
 * In this episode "What's making us happy" is the first segment instead of in it's usual place as the closing segment.
 * Stephen does a great impression of True Blood accents (6:08)
 * Linda questions why, when you can get through so much plot in two Godfather movies, do you need to split a Twilight book into two movies? (11:50)