Sweet Tea & TV

[Return to Duckworld] Special Episode: Salina Watches Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck was our second special episode ever. Salina watched for the first time. Nikki revisited and realized just how weird this movie was for a kid. Then we met and chatted about our reactions. The movie. Eh. The trivia. Stellar.

Leave Earth for just a bit, and come with us, want you? We’re going to Duckworld!

[Revisit] Designing Women S2E17 How to Bribe an IRS Agent for Dummies

On reflection, it occurs to us that every major cast member has a wedding episode: that is one where they are married or make an attempt down the aisle. Suzanne got her turn after Reggie MacDawson ‘absconded’ with all her money. In other news: it’s the return of Ray Don, where Julia tries her hand at flirting and Mary Jo gets soused off one “purse drink”. 

Crack open something good for this week’s “Extra Sugar” where we’re talking about the history of canned cocktails.

Designing Women S4E8 Re-Sugar: The Mansion to Rule Them All

REPLAY: When “Julia gets her head stuck in a fence” – AKA the very rare, priceless, and historically significant Abbott Banister in the Georgia Governor’s Mansion – back in season 4, there was only one thing for us to do: talk about these mansions, of course. We threw in a “Grits Blitz” for good measure.

[Revisit] Designing Women S2E20 A Smidgen of Religion

The one where Bernice officially stole our hearts and made us stand up and cheer. It turns out, she’s a biblical savant and low key feminist who took Charlene’s minister to task over his argument against women in ministry. Meanwhile, Julia sings “for all us girls, everywhere” – should you need a good cry.

We took this week’s “Extra Sugar” as an opportunity to take a closer look at women at the pulpit. 

Designing Women S4E2 Re-Sugar: Dixie Carter

It’s time we revisit our “Extra Sugar” all about Dixie Carter!

By the time we’d done this, we’d done segments about the lives and careers of  LBT, Annie Potts, Meschach Taylor, Delta Burke, and Jean Smart, but we owed you – and ourselves – a Dixie Carter deep-dive. This episode is where we pay up. We’re finally talking about Ms. Julia Sugarbaker herself, THE Dixie Carter.

P.S. If we sound punch drunk, we kind of were thanks to copious amounts of sherbert punch leading up to the segment. 

[Revisit] Designing Women S3E3 - Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Longtime listeners know we get pretty excited anytime we get to leave Sugarbakers, so when the ladies + Anthony road trips it to Graceland…We. Were. Stoked. Nikki waxed poetically about Buc-ee’s in a sidebar (a VERY necessary road trip stop here in the South), and then we just had to talk about Graceland and The King himself during our “Extra Sugar” segment. 

[Return to the Sea] Special Episode: Captain Ron

Season 3 officially cemented a ‘movie review’ episode into Sweet Tea & TV tradition. This time Salina would watch – for the first time – a Nikki favorite: Captain Ron. Patreons picked this one (just a little reminder of the perks if you want to get involved).

We learned A LOT including the fact that we really want to be Martin Short and Steve Martin’s friends IRL. We played a new game for “Extra Sugar” called Nautical or Knot. Play along to see if you have your sea legs.

[Revisit] Designing Women S3 E5 - Let’s Take These Babies on a Test Drive

This one is a Salina favorite. When Mary Jo contemplated a breast augmentation back in season 3, episode 5, it basically became one big ole, double D-sized breference. 

That led to the “Extra Sugar” dedicated to the one and only brassiere. AKA the over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder. AKA the bra. It’s fascinating, y’all!

Designing Women S5 E4 Re-Sugar - Southern Fried Crime

Julia’s brush with the legal system (AKA jury duty), led to an “Extra Sugar” where Nikki brought us two unbelievable Southern criminal trials. Don’t worry! She lightened the mood with crimes that were, shall we say, a little scattered, smothered and covered?

[Revisit] Designing Women S3 E12: Some Kind of a Perky Cult

This one was like a sneaky “Designing Women” lesson to BOLO for pyramid schemes. If it happened this side of the 21st century, they would have been extracting Charlene from the grasps of some LulaRoe-esque company. 

When we weren’t trying to un-brainwash Charlene, we were watching Suzanne and Anthony grow closer over his run for homecoming representative. 

We ended this one with an “Extra Sugar” about the darker side of pyramid schemes and their tactics eerie resemblance to cults.