The Toy Department – Episode 376

The Toy Department

In Episode 376, Madden and Kolsky pause to celebrate Chelsea FC’s successful FA Cup match before focusing on today’s topics:

• An action-packed episode of The Challenge: Battle for a New Champion (6:05) and the Challenge-fan-villain origin story that transpired this week for one of our hosts…
• The latest entry in the ever-expanding why?! canon, Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air (28:15) and how maybe it’s time to usher Hollywood’s old guard into a not-even-actually-early retirement…
• Donald Glover’s new take on Mr. & Mrs. Smith (34:00) and how his art continues to surprise and delight…
• Jake Johnson’s bizarre opus Self Reliance (39:25) and the value of full commitment to a wacky premise…
• Netflix’s new (old) dour addiction recovery comedy Loudermilk (44:25) and the all-time That Guy rankings, featuring Ron Livingston…
• Homework for next week (48:45), including: the long-awaited arrival of TJ’s Final on The Challenge: Battle for a New Champion, Apple TV+’s fashion/WWII show The New Look, Ryan Murphy’s new show Feud: Capote v. The Swans and Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show…
• A few football thoughts (50:20) as we head into what should be ann extremely entertaining Super Bowl weekend…