Episode 48
TV Series (Guess the Plot)
📺 From cartoon favorites to classic sitcoms, this TV Series Guess the Plot showdown challenges kids and parents to identify famous TV shows using just four-word clues. From animated adventures to hilarious comedies, who’ll recognize the most shows first? 📼💿
What’s a TV series we could do next?
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Kids vs Parents is a trivia podcast made for kids and parents to enjoy together. Have feedback or questions? Email us at kidsvsparentspodcast@gmail.com
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Kids vs Parents is produced by Vandalpop Media
Producer: Steve Koch
Editors: Ever Cunningham, Steve Koch
Cover Design: Patrick Hardy
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Kids vs Parents
01:08 Parents' Questions
04:37 Kids' Questions
08:03 Bonus / Tiebreaker
09:20 Suggest a Topic
Transcript
Okay,
Lovella:a quick four-word plot to start us off.
Lovella:What TV series is this?
Lovella:Friends Love Muddy Puddles.
Steve:Oh,
Steve:okay, I know that TV series.
Steve:Peppa Pig.
Lovella:Correct.
Lovella:Welcome back to Kids Are Us Parents.
Lovella:I'm Lovella.
Steve:And I'm Steve.
Lovella:This is the trivia battle where the front seat takes on the back seat.
Steve:Today, we're playing Guess the Plot.
Steve:How that works is I'll give you four clues for a plot from a TV series,
Steve:and you have to try and guess the name of the TV show.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:And you'll do the same for me.
Steve:So kids versus parents,
Steve:kids TV shows,
Steve:parents TV shows,
Steve:four words to explain the plot.
Steve:Lovella,
Steve:what are we playing for today?
Lovella:Today's winner gets to choose the next dessert.
Steve:Oh,
Steve:okay.
Steve:Love it.
Steve:What would you pick?
Lovella:Ice cream.
Steve:Ice cream?
Steve:Ooh,
Steve:I think I would pick pie.
Lovella:Ugh.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:No.
Steve:I like a good pie.
Steve:Or a cheesecake,
Steve:maybe.
Lovella:No.
Steve:I like cheesecake,
Steve:too.
Steve:All right, well, who's going to go first, then?
Lovella:How about the parents?
Steve:All right, parents,
Steve:we are up first.
Steve:Get yourselves ready for some TV series plots.
Lovella:All right,
Lovella:plot number one.
Lovella:Workers endure awkward office.
Steve:Okay,
Steve:workers.
Steve:Okay, this is the office.
Steve:This is clearly the office.
Lovella:Correct.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Nice.
Steve:Great TV show.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Second plot.
Lovella:Kids solve neighborhood mysteries.
Steve:Kids solve neighborhood mysteries.
Steve:Is this a parents TV series?
Lovella:No.
Steve:Not really?
Steve:It's more of a kids show?
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:Well, it's going to be Scooby-Doo.
Lovella:Correct.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Nice.
Steve:Nice.
Steve:It is an old TV series.
Steve:Although I think they're still doing Scooby-Doo episodes now.
Lovella:There's Scooby-Doo and then there's this.
Lovella:How many movies are there?
Steve:I don't know how many.
Steve:There's a lot of TV series.
Steve:There's a lot of movies.
Steve:Scooby-Doo movies as well.
Steve:Great.
Steve:All right.
Steve:I'm two on the board.
Steve:Come on, stump me, Lovella.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Here we go.
Steve:Give me a hard one.
Lovella:Bot number three.
Lovella:Households share comedic dysfunctions.
Steve:Households share comedic dysfunctions.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:I know this one.
Steve:We watch this a lot, don't we, Lovella?
Lovella:Oh,
Lovella:yeah.
Steve:Modern Family.
Lovella:Correct.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Such a good TV series.
Steve:Yeah, that is a good TV series.
Lovella:So funny.
Steve:So funny.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Last one.
Steve:All right.
Steve:I'm going for a clean sweep.
Steve:I don't think I've had a clean sweep in a long time.
Steve:So I'm very excited about this.
Steve:Trying to take the pressure off though.
Lovella:Last plot.
Lovella:Town hides supernatural horrors.
Steve:town hides supernatural horrors i think i stumped you town hides uh okay so it's a
Steve:Thrillery,
Steve:spooky one.
Steve:Oh, it's got to be Stranger Things,
Steve:I think.
Steve:I feel like it has to be Stranger Things.
Steve:Town,
Steve:what's another?
Steve:Oh,
Steve:wait.
Steve:Or is it X-Files?
Steve:Say the plot again.
Lovella:Town hides supernatural horrors.
Steve:Okay, it's not X-Files.
Steve:X-Files is not one little town.
Steve:So I feel like it's Stranger Things.
Steve:That's Stranger Things.
Steve:That's my guess.
Lovella:Correct.
Lovella:Yes.
Lovella:Wow.
Steve:Four out of four.
Steve:Finally.
Steve:Lean sweet.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:All right.
Steve:I'm feeling good about this one.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Parents,
Steve:I hope you did just as well as me in the car.
Lovella:Good job,
Lovella:Dad.
Lovella:You got a clean sweep,
Lovella:which is unexpected.
Steve:Oh,
Steve:well,
Steve:I, yes.
Steve:Usually I'm not as good as it.
Lovella:No, you're not as good as me.
Steve:No,
Steve:but this TV series is my wheelhouse.
Lovella:Yep.
Lovella:Okay,
Lovella:kids.
Lovella:It's our turn next.
Steve:All right, kids.
Steve:You're up.
Steve:TV series plots.
Steve:Ready?
Steve:Four words.
Steve:Plot number one.
Steve:Puppy family plays games.
Lovella:Puppy family plays games.
Lovella:Oh,
Lovella:come on.
Lovella:This is so easy.
Steve:Is it?
Lovella:I think so.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:It's Bluey.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:Of course.
Lovella:Yes, Bluey.
Steve:You got it.
Steve:You got it.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Plot number two.
Steve:Mouse friends solve problems.
Lovella:Mouse friends solve problems.
Lovella:As in like,
Lovella:I want to say Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or something,
Lovella:but mouse friends?
Steve:Could there be another TV series with a mouse in it?
Lovella:No,
Lovella:but like, does it mean like Mouse Friends is in,
Lovella:it's only,
Lovella:it's just mice?
Lovella:Or is it like mouse and friends?
Steve:What do you think?
Lovella:Oh,
Lovella:I don't know.
Lovella:I'm just going to go with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Steve:Correct.
Lovella:Yes,
Steve:let's go.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:All right, excellent.
Steve:I got to stump you here.
Steve:Okay,
Steve:plot number three.
Steve:Three men raise kids.
Lovella:three men raise kids okay do you know what my mind first went to what i was like it's not a tv
Lovella:show uh three dads and a baby three men and a baby three men and a baby but then and i thought three
Lovella:men's three men and a kid no this is a tv series tv series oh i know for hell correct
Lovella:Yes.
Lovella:Oh,
Lovella:Full House is so good.
Steve:Nice.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:All right. You're doing really well on this one too.
Lovella:I know.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:I always do well. What are you talking about?
Lovella:It's you who does bad.
Steve:Fair enough. All right. Let's see how we go.
Steve:I'm going to try and stump you with another TV series.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:Plot number four.
Steve:Tiger learns life lessons.
Lovella:Oh my gosh, I grew up watching this show.
Lovella:I know this.
Lovella:It's Daniel Tiger.
Steve:Ah, yeah.
Steve:I thought maybe he had forgotten.
Lovella:No, I love it.
Lovella:And I still remember the theme song.
Steve:You know what it's based off of?
Steve:What?
Steve:You know what Daniel Tiger is based off of?
Steve:It's based off of Mr.
Steve:Rogers'
Steve:Neighborhood, which is a very,
Steve:very old TV series a long
Steve:time ago in the US.
Lovella:Never heard of it.
Steve:Yeah,
Steve:but it's the same theme song.
Lovella:Oh, that's nice.
Steve:Yeah,
Steve:but they just animated it.
Steve:I think it might be even created by the same people.
Steve:That's cool.
Steve:Very good television show to watch when you're a little kid, hey?
Lovella:Oh,
Lovella:yeah.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Well, Lovella,
Steve:score check?
Steve:Four out of four.
Lovella:For both of us.
Steve:That's right.
Lovella:Is that the first time?
Steve:I don't think so.
Steve:I don't know if we've ever had a double clean sweep before.
Lovella:It might have been one time, one episode.
Steve:I don't know.
Steve:Well,
Lovella:let us know.
Steve:It clearly shows that we watch too much TV.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Maybe.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:tiebreaker question.
Steve:So how this works for us, one plot and the first team to buzz in and answer
Steve:correctly gets the two points or the win for us.
Steve:If it's not a tie in your car, then you can allocate
Steve:some points to this particular round.
Steve:So winner takes all.
Steve:If you get it wrong, no, the other
Steve:person wins.
Steve:All right. All right.
Steve:Okay. So one plot,
Steve:first one to buzz in.
Steve:All right, everybody,
Steve:hands on your buzzers.
Steve:All right, Lovella, you have got the plot in front of you?
Lovella:Yep.
Steve:Okay,
Steve:great.
Lovella:All right, here we go. Bonus tiebreaker plot.
Lovella:Girl explores the world.
Lovella:Buzz.
Steve:Girl explores the world.
Steve:You know it?
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:Girl explores the world.
Steve:Oh,
Steve:is it? I think I
Steve:might know now. Yes.
Lovella:I know.
Steve:Okay, you go. You say it.
Lovella:Dora the Explorer.
Lovella:Yay,
Steve:it's Dora.
Lovella:I watch
Lovella:that all the time.
Steve:Yay.
Steve:Congratulations,
Steve:Lovella. That means you win Guess the Plot TV series.
Steve:Well
Steve:done.
Steve:You get the prize. What was the prize again?
Lovella:I get to choose the next dessert.
Steve:What are you
Steve:picking?
Lovella:Ice cream.
Steve:We're having ice cream next time we have dessert.
Steve:Which is going to be tonight.
Steve:You're going to make it tonight?
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:We only have dessert once a week, right? No, we have it a lot.
Steve:We just have it once a month. No, we don't. You get the monthly dessert. You're lying to yourself.
Steve:All right. If you've got a suggestion for a topic,
Lovella:click the link in the show notes and we might
Lovella:Feature your idea in a future episode.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:Thanks for playing KidsFest Parents.
Steve:We'll see you next time.
Lovella:Bye.
