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Sweet Tea & TV

A podcast by two Southerners exploring and celebrating the better parts of Southern culture on TV and in entertainment. Seasons 1 and 2 - Designing Women.

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01:06:21

Designing Women S6 E1: The Replacements

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/09/30

We're ba-aaaaack! That's right, after much hemming and hawing over whether to watch the final seasons of Designing Women, ultimately, we realized it was much ado about nothing. Of course we have to wrap up the series! We’re doing things a little different this time, however. We’ll cover the series over the course of seven weeks. For this first episode, we’re breaking down our general reactions to the season. Get into our feelings if you will. Come on y’all, let’s get into it!

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01:00:12

S5 E24 RESUGAR: Farewell to Suzanne and Charlene

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/09/19

As we gear up for season 6, it’s only right to revisit our “Extra Sugar” all about Suzanne and Charlene – one we did whilst still in our feelings about Delta Burke’s final episode. Mourn the loss with us – we talked about some favorite moments, what they mean to us, and what happened to Burke and Jean Smart next IRL.

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59:26

[Revisit] S5 E19: Boppin’ Off to the Big Easy

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/09/16

Well, y’all, this Designing Women episode was both a favorite of ours and listeners, so let’s laissez les bons temps rouler! While we felt Julia’s rant in our bones, for the record, we’d still prefer to hang with Suzanne and Charlene in ‘The Big Easy’. Inspired by their night on the town, Nikki’s told us about 10 not-so-obvious things to do when you visit New Orleans. And, if you’re feeling frisky, you can go back and find this one’s accompanying “Extra Sugar” that we dedicated to the important

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19:00

S5 E11 RESUGAR: Behind-The-Scenes Drama for Your Mama

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/09/12

In our fifth season, we finally got into the real life and offscreen drama between Delta Burke and the Thomasons. While only those involved can truly know what happened, this time period would ultimately lead to Burke’s departure from the series – and so we felt we owed it to ourselves and those following along to talk about it. We also picked and discussed some other famous offscreen feuds between stars and their bosses.

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43:02

[Revisit] S5 E13: All-You-Can-Eat Pearls

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/09/09

You may think we picked this one for the buffets, and you’re half right (we did get a pretty tasty “Nibbles” segment out of it). Mainly, we’re here for Mary Jo and Charlene’s level 10 physical comedy trying to find Suzanne’s pearls in the salad bar. This is also where we introduced our temporary segment, “Suzanne Watch” - to try and decode some of the weird ways they were using Delta Burke as their relationship in real life quickly unraveled.

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28:55

S5 E16 – RESUGAR: Beware of Plastics

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/08/29

Bernice’s toward self-acceptance was a fun, little thrill for us, since it taught us that we can still experience self-loathing well into our senior years. Why not relive that realization through a re-sugar of our foray into plastic surgery. Well, our academic foray - no actual surgery was had. (But, it’s not too late - still taking donations!)

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56:23

[Revisit] S5 E4: Julia Gets Jury Duty

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/08/26

Any episode where Julia gets riled is worth a rewatch. Her run-ins (read: total and complete meltdowns) with “big ole donkey scout” first Charlene and later her fried-cheese-eating jury duty colleagues reminds us one and all: don’t mess with a Southern woman on a mission. We also sidebarred on radio contests in honor of the hurtin’ Charlene, Suzanne, and Anthony put on the record store after winning a radio contest.

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26:10

S4 E11– RESUGAR: Fat Shaming, Body Shaming, and Body...

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/08/22

Season 4, episode 11, “They Shoot Fat Women, Don’t They” was a seminal moment in Designing Women’s history and simultaneously a denouement to the media and public’s relentless obsession with Delta Burke’s weight. So, when we finally reached this essential episode last year, we knew it was time for an “Extra Sugar” that explored what happened behind the scenes. It was also an opportunity to talk about fat shaming and body shaming, why these concepts matter, and what we can do to take care of

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41:32

[Revisit] S4 E24: Suzanne and Anthony Defraud the...

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/08/19

What can we say? We love an Anthony and Suzanne team-up. In this case it was more of a good bribery, but either way, we were all in for their zany plan to keep Consuela from being deported. (After all, she and Suzanne understand each other. We’re talking middle-of-the-night peach pies and overlooked knives thrown. That’s love, y’all.)

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30:49

[Revenge-ier] Special Episode: First Wives Club Part II

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/08/15

As promised, we came together one more time to talk about First Wives Club. We talked about cast members who have gone on to become bonafide Hollywood icons since this movie, potential casting what-ifs, and even a few First Wives Controversies.

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54:27

[Revisit] S4 E11: Remember Me Any Way You Like

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/08/12

Any revisit of season 4 would be completely incomplete if we didn’t revisit Suzanne’s (and Delta Burke’s!) moment in the sun. Suzanne gets bullied at her high school reunion for gaining weight, while Anthony, Julia, and Mary Jo go on a two-day fast to raise awareness about world hunger. We miss Charlene. (tear emoji) So where are we on world hunger in the 21st century? We’ll sidebar on it. Then come back Thursday for an “Extra Sugar” dedicated to Suzanne’s plot line including how this episode came

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59:06

[The Re-Revenge] Special Episode: First Wives Club

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/08/08

First Wives Club. Now this one was an audience pick and we happily obliged. We talked about our favorite parts, why it means so much to us, and movie trivia. Outside of the recording: we constructed an entire revenge-themed menu and shared each of those dishes on social media. This one gave us so much content that we had to split it into two, so come back next week for more.

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01:08:07

[Revisit] S4E7: Some Like Dolls, Some Like Revenge

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/08/05

We can’t revisit season 4 and skip past this classic Bernice episode. Her niece tried to declare her incompetent and, you know, shenanigans! Every performance was on FIRE, especially Annie Potts and Delta Burke. We also had to talk about the Mary Jo coined trip, “the IRBAT" – as in "the International Rich B!t*h Alimony Tour" – in a Salina’s Sidebar. Also interested in one of those if a spot becomes available. Just saying.

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26:13

[Back to the Mountains] Designing Women S4 E4...

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/08/01

Designing Women gave us about fifty-’leven Deliverance references, and then, in season 4, they basically did their own sitcom version. This left us no choice but to finally talk about it. One of us watched it begrudgingly (70s pacing is tough for a modern movie viewer), and then we met to talk about movie trivia, themes, and the enduring impact on the South. It’s a thing, y’all.

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01:11:27

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

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/07/29

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.

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32:14

Designing Women S5 E4 Re-Sugar - Southern Fried Crime

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/07/25

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?

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01:18:57

[Revisit] Designing Women S3 E5 - Let’s Take These...

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/07/22

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!

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01:13:20

[Return to the Sea] Special Episode: Captain Ron

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/07/18

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.

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01:07:51

[Revisit] Designing Women S3E3 - Are You Lonesome...

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/07/15

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.

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12:52

Designing Women S4E2 Re-Sugar: Dixie Carter

Sweet Tea & TV ·

2024/07/11

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.

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