Single Season Record

Swans Crossing turns nothing into something, nips things in the bud and confuses to confront. It's read Grant Booth's The Art of Turning Tables and isn't holding back.

Nate Runkel is back to wash dishes and borrow graphite fishing poles. And he's all out of fish.   This episode sounds bad in the beginning (I know, but like worse than usual) but it gets fixed around the 7:00 minute mark.

Garrett gets a new dad but Derick doesn't remember anything so is anything really different?

Nate Runkel is back for a whole new week of Swans Crossing (as we always knew he would be).

Denzel Belin joins us for the end of Police Squad! and maybe also his mind.

This episode is so Nate! As evidenced by the appearance of Yo! That's My Jawn's Nate Runkel, sure, but also other things, like chimps (but not zebras.)

Is Hilary Woodward trying to stop Hilary Woodward from enjoying Police Squad!? This episode would be a great way to find out.

From Alex P. Keaton Is My Friend (and so many other things) Phil Vecchio joins us for episode #3 (not #5!) of Police Squad!    

Jordy Bogguss is with us to wonder what Derick is watching that makes Police Squad! not that great.

New season? Yes, it is. Well.   M Squad / Police Squad! Side-By-Side Red Rock Cider

David Lynch would call Derick a hero for persevering through his single season sitcom, On The Air. On The Air on Internet Archive (maybe) Schuyler Fisk on Yo! That's My Jawn Vinnie Gets Sued  

The end of week 4 is our first full week of Swans Crossing and it's really a wonder we could ever stop ourselves before. Gimme smore!

If nothing happens on Swans Crossing does anyone even notice unless you make someone watch it who has never seen an episode before?

A Very Wednesday episode of Swans Crossing.

Don't be ridiculous, just because all the charcaters are different and don't know what they are saying anymore does not mean Swans Crossing isn't still the greatest show to ever be. Maybe that's exactly why.

Week 4 begins by reviewing episode 15 for us and the characters of Swans Crossing, who need it just as much as we do.

Wildfires! Looting! An invasion (of parents) at our borders! Kid Nation's finale aired over 17 years ago but still manages to be relevant.

We don't care if you listen, as long as you respect us. And also listen to us.

Bonanza City needs fun, badly. Life force running low.   Or maybe they needed the books after all.

New Year. New Council. New Guest. Kristal Fields gets dropped into Bonanza City with zero and/or misleading context and has to wonder why everyone hates that adorable ten year old girl so much.

Pete Capella picks up with Kid Nation tight where he left off after years processing how he could want to punch a ten year old in the face.

Chris Hayner and Jordy Bogguss are back to chew gum and make fun of kids. And they're all out of gum. Just kidding, there's so much gum.    

It's time for Bonanza City to woke up. And that's why Lauren Flans is here. She's dropping in to the middle of Kid Nation to just watch this one episode and then get as far away as possible as long as wherever that is she can still read episode sysopses.   Chris Hayner is here because Jared is his Spirit Pioneer.

Guest Matt Kawczynski is certainly disgusted. But Derick might be more on board with Kid Nation than ever before. Pardons all around!

Chris Hayner visits Bonanza City and is ready to establish residency so he can vote. And start a book club.

Survey says: God is Great. Golf is Whatever.

Jordy Bogguss visits Bonanza City to defend microwaves, bullying and everything Taylor has and will ever do.

I pledge allegiance to Kid Nation, every Wednesday night. And to the Network for which it stands, one show, unreality, indicisive, with liberty and root beer for the Upper Class.

Kid Nation is a failed state, but there's plenty of carcass to pick over. Not literally though, I mean, no one knows how to cook.

Actual baseball! Cosmic forces! Offensive offense! Indefensible defense! And the shot seen round the world (camera shot, that is.) It's Amerca's pasttime: Swans Crossing. And it's the end of week 3. It's something else, all right.    

This is it.   This is it.   A swans to build a dream on. 

Is Lookwell a one season show because it aired one time in the summer of 1991? No. But we're talking about it anyway? Yes. But we're also talking about talking about it so I guess that's fine? No. But that's what Derick wants? Yes. But why should that matter? Anyway, by now you could have listened to it.

We file Andy Barker with the IRS, expecting nothing in return.

We have no guest this week, but Andy Barker, PI more than makes up for that.

Natalie Wass, aka The Bunheads Broker, is with us for Andy Barker, PI, of all things. But maybe not so secretly she's really here to talk about Andy Richter's other one season show, Quintuplets.

Hilary Woodward is back to watch Andy Barker, PI for the second time, even if she doesn't remember that. Derick might not remember either and he watched it for the first time twenty minutes ago. Wig jokes and chicken puns just aren't be enough.

Harry Nelson is here to dive too deep into Andy Barker, P.I., hit our heads, and make us (Derick) think maybe this is a funny show after all.

Season 8 begins with a mystery: Why are we watching another show created by Jonathan Groff??? Andy Barker, P.I. was a 2007 midseason replacement vehicle starring Andy Richter and Tony Hale and you can't watch it anywhere because even Peacock has chosen Father Of The Pride over it. Brian Sadecki is with us to try and find where all the jokes went.

Swans Crossing takes the connotations of a thirteenth episode a little too literally. Barek is in town and we may never be able to sleep again. Except for Derick who already doesn't remember what just happened.

Did Swans Crossing just become good TV? We know its only temporary, but its difficult not to get obsessed. Not as obsessed as Jordy is with that phone The Countess is using, of course.

Swans Crossing is back for its third week of that blissful summer of 1992. It takes us to The Growny Zone and back, sings and dances, tempts us with hot dogs and throws us off our bike.

AD Police (Files) is only nearly every free streaming service, as though they are trying to prepare us for the inevitable future of MegaTokyo. It's only three years from now after all.   Denzel Belin joins us for the most adult show we've tackled so far. Maybe we can't take it. Maybe we shouldn't take it.  Maybe we should ask someone to fill us with bullets already and get it all over with.   @from_washington @derickarmijo @SingleSeasonTV singleseasonrecord@gmail.com

It's the end of Silver Surfer and we feel fine. Chris Hayner is with us to both turn back time and look forward into the unlikely Season 2 of this show that did exactly what it set out to do without ever actually being for anyone. Fare thee well, Norrin Radd. We hardly knew ye, even though ye would never shut up about yourself.

Ego tricks Derick into thinking this show is over, but Silver Surfer has just a little more insuffrability to burn.

Nate Runkel is with us to try and discuss Terrence Howard's descent into madness instead of Silver Surfer's descent into depression. The nerve of some people.

Speed round with Pete Capella who is in no mood for this Marvel space nonsense.

Does all your Marvel knowledge come from crossword puzzles and Superman shows? Does Beta Ray Bill remind you of Marty from Gilmore Girls? Is it too late for you, just in general? Well, this is the show for you!

Everyone's favorite genocidal space moper is back for more brooding and blobbing. @VeryCoolEmily helps us figure out how to use the Power Cosmic and precisely how cute Pip The Troll is. 

The Silver Surfer has appeared unto us and we will live in fear until he hath been vanquished. If such a circumstance be even possible. Also Rich Monahan is with us to help us speak normally after all this.

The end of Swans Crossing's second week may not have everything you've come to never expect from this show, but it does have balloon monologues, divergently moble cakes, distracting soundscapes and mysterious floats. And shouldn't that be enough?

Derick tries to ruin Swans Crossing but it's too detached from reality to fall for his tricks.