Paul Maki, self-proclaimed Idjit, makes episode-by-episode reviews of television shows. An eclectic mix of short run shows, animated, and older television is reviewed along with biographic tidbits, cultural artifacts, and general weird stuff.
Dog Days of Advent Trivia 2025 Day 2 will answer all the questions from yesterday about breakfast cereals. Then, we will look at commercial spokespeople, when stars are hired to promote products and services.
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Dog Days of Advent Trivia starts today, and if you hadn’t guessed after listening to the “Wake Up” vignette, we could call it the Dog Days of AD-vent Trivia (as coined by my lovely wife Darcy). Questions this year will be based on advertising and marketing, almost completely based in the world of television advertising. It is designed to be simple without being necessarily easy, so start out today with part of this nutritious breakfast, a round called “Cereal Story.”
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What did you eat to dream that?
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This is an episode to introduce the Dog Days of Advent 2025, and to detail plans for the month. There’s trivia and moving as major themes.
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First, Paul watches Jim Rockford get stuck in a small town real estate scam, currency and Denny’s restaurants. Then, due to scheduling issues, the last episode of Whiz Kids is actually one from earlier in the season under Bob Shayne, and looking at a surprisingly forward-looking bit of Radio Shack tech, and another, not quite as successful restaurant chain.
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