Game Shows, Hosts, and Contestants
“It’s a real live Melrose Place. It takes you back to junior high - very catty, very cliquey.,” said this host of Big Brother
Who is Julie Chen-Moonves?
This professor of archaeology was almost played by Tom Selleck, but the role went to Harrison Ford due to scheduling conflicts with CBS’s Magnum P.I..
Who is Indiana Jones?
Especially pure and uniquely blue-colored, Walt breaks bad by synthesizing this drug.
What is Meth?
Famous for its animal style menu offerings, this burger place initially sold its cheeseburger for ¢30 in Baldwin Park, California.
What is In n Out?
With an accidental spark of static electricity on to a tooth swimming in Buzz Cola, Lisa plays God in an episode of this animated TV sitcom.
What is The Simpsons?
Hosted by Greg Davies alongside this co-host, Taskmaster has featured such competitors as comedian James Acaster, and Kiell-Smith Bynoe and Charlotte Richie, stars of the UK sitcom Ghosts.
Who is Alex Horn?
It didn’t take money, fame, or a credit card for Huey Lewis and the News to reach number-one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with this hit song, featured in Back to the Future. That’s…
What is The Power of Love?
When Jesse ignores Walt’s request to dispose of a dead body using a plastic bin, this highly corrosive material - HF - ends up eating through a bathtub, and then the floor.
What is Hydrofluoric Acid?
One of the oldest restaurants in SoCal, this classic LA spot once housed a machine shop and an Inn before serving its famous French Dip sandwiches.
What is Philippe?
In the intro to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, this German bounty hunter (played by Christoph Waltz) rides innocuously into the scene on a dentist cart before abruptly shooting a man and a horse.
Who is Dr. King Schultz?
In this game show, in which forty children spent forty days without parents in an old west ghost town, four kids accidentally drank bleach.
What is Kid Nation?
Writer Dan O’Bannon and artist H.R. Giger were set to work on a failed adaptation of Dune before eventually reconvening for this Ridley Scott horror movie set in space, where no one can hear you scream.
What is Alien?
Derived from castor beans, this poison is said by Walt to be toxic in small doses and easy to overlook in an autopsy.
What is Ricin?
This SoCal burger franchise, started at a small stand on Beverly and Rampart Blvds. and made famous for its chili, also serves tamales.
What is Tommy’s?
In a 1922 German horror film - of which a remake by director Robert Eggers will be released later this year - this titular character is said to “sinketh his fangs into his victim and feedeth on his blood”.
What is Nosferatu?
This host was once voted People Magazine’s Most Beautiful People and directed the 2001 film Finder’s Fee starring Ryan Reynolds and James Earl Jones
Who is Jeff Probst?
Before landing her role as Stacy Hamilton in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, this actress actually worked at a Perry’s Pizza just like her character.
Who is Jennifer Jason Leigh?
In a successful attempt to intimidate drug lord Tuco in season one of the show, Walter throws a crystal of Hg(CNO)₂, also known as this compound, to trigger an explosion.
What is Mercury Fulminate?
Opened in 1952, you can choose from a variety of deli meats and antipasto, or try one of their famous torpedo sandwiches, at this 72 year old Italian spot in Gardena.
What is Giuliano’s Original Deli?
In the film Finding Nemo, main characters Marlin and Dory search for Marlin’s lost son, Nemo, using this address found on a pair of swimming goggles.
What is 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney?
Tomoaki Hamatsu, (not so) affectionately nicknamed this (“eggplant” in English), spent over 15 months alone in a room submitting mail-in entries to various contests to try to earn his freedom on the show Denpa Shonen.
What is Nasubi?
In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, set to an instrumental by The Dream Academy, Cameron Frye stares deeper and deeper into this painting at The Chicago Institute of Art.
What is Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?
Used as a covert meeting spot in the show, you can visit this filming location in Albuquerque to learn about Los Alamos or atomic theory.
What is The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History?
Started by Mrs. Bañuelos in 1954 in what is now South Central LA, this eatery is known for its green chile burrito which you can also find in the freezer section of numerous stores like Sam’s Club or even 7/11.
What is Ramona’s Mexican Food?
On the kid’s TV show The Fairly Oddparents, Chip Skylark - voiced by this NSYNC member - sings in an in-universe pop hit: “My shiny teeth that twinkle / Just like the stars in space / My shiny teeth that sparkle / Adding beauty to my face”.
Who is Chris Kirkpatrick?