The First Ones

Welcome to The First Ones, an Our POoRCHoices podcast. On this series Sarcastro and Queen Mel pick a show from yesteryear and maybe grab a couple of guests from around the POoRCHoices offices and recap just the first episode of said show while dissecting it and determining if it's a show that would fly in today's entertainment landscape.

The First Ones is a comedy podcast hosted by Our POoRCHoices, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Our POoRCHoices hosts The First Ones, a comedy show with 24 episodes published.

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  S02E11 - Designing Women

  Jun 30, 20261h 4mS2

  This month, Queen Mel and Sarcastro dive into the world of 1980's southern interior decorating with the first episode of Designinig Women. A show about four thirty to forty somethings that run thier own interior design company in Georgia while also navigating the tropes of love, friendships and trust. This show features a cast of strong actors including Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, and Jean Smart who run Sugarbaker and Associates and navigate their way through a plethora of adventures during their tenor. Theme song to The First Ones written and performed by Elysium/@elysium_music Have a suggestion for a sitcom you want us to cover, send us an email at thefirstonespodcast@gmail.com or you can visit us at tfopodcast.com and submit a suggestion through our site. Want to send us a hand drawn picture of Sarcastro and/or Queen Mel in the theme of any of the shows we've covered? You can do that by sending those drawings into us at the following address: The First Ones PO Box 14 Salfordville, PA 18958 Also be sure to check out Queen Mel and Mr. The Slayer on their Buffy the Vampire recap show, The Sunnydale Diaries, on their podcast and YouTube feeds. You can also support Queen Mel and her artwork by visiting her Etsy store Bright Blossom Glass

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  S02E10 - Cheers

  Jun 2, 20261h 5mS2

  <p>This month Queen Mel and Sarcastro are joined by Mr. The Slayer to visit a place where everybody knows your name as they discuss the first episode of Cheers from 1982. Starring Ted Danson, Shelly Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Pearlman, and George Wendt, it was a sitcom that proves to the group that it can stand the test of time, at least for their generation.  Queen Mel and Mr. The Slayer also discuss their trip up to the actual bar in Boston that Cheers was based on in the exterior shots.  Where does it rank on the Benson - Blansky sc...

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  S02E09 - M*A*S*H

  May 5, 202653 minS2

  <p>This month Queen Mel and Sarcastro gather around with friend of the show, Mr. The Slayer, to talk about the pilot episode of the 1972 series, M*A*S*H.  From the comedic approach to a terrible situation for the characters to be put in is fantastically acted out by the cast which in this episode was made up of Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville, McLean Stevenson and Gary Burghoff.  The laugh track opens up a conversation on the use of those in modern shows and how sitcoms found the laugh tracks they wanted to use and if...

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  S02E08 - Hogan's Heroes

  Mar 31, 202649 minS2

  <p>This month Queen Mel and Sarcastro watch Hogan's Heroes, the comedic portrayal of a group of Allied POWs in a stalag from 1965 who get up to a lot of mischief in getting over on their German captors.   The show starred Bob Crane as the titular Col. Hogan; Werner Klemperer as Col. Klink the man in charge of the camp; John Banner as Sgt. Schultz, the only German officer in the camp who knows about the hijinx of the Allies; The show also co-starred Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon and Larry Hovis rounding out the rest of the heroes in...

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  S02E07 - Sledge Hammer!

  Mar 3, 202658 minS2

  <p>This month Queen Mel and Sarcastro watched Sledge Hammer! which aired it's first episode in 1986 and starred David Rasche as the titular Sledge Hammer, a slightly (or more than slightly) unhinged from rational thought police inspector, who is joined by his more level-headed partner Detective Dori Doreau played by Anne-Marie Martin.  </p> <p>This show had them questioning is it a sitcom based on the way it was shot compared to the other sitcoms they've watched on the show and if it was really as funny as the laugh track on Queen Mel's copy of the episode would have yo...

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