Ok, this is bloody weird. Eric Idle maybe did an episode of @Midnight recently, though possibly in an alternate universe. Allow me to explain.
I popped onto Hulu, looking for some light entertainment. I remembered seeing Idle tweet about being on @Midnight, so I turned to my friend, the internet, and started doing a little googling. Looked like the episode aired March 11, so I went to the March 11 episode… and found no Eric Idle. Nor either of his co-guests. Also, while the episode guide listed March 11 as s03e34, Hulu has it as s02e72. The lineup that Hulu lists has never actually occurred on the show according to the guide. Heck, I just watched March 9th’s episode, and two of the three people on that one have NEVER been on the show, per the guide.
Added to this, I can’t find any clips of Eric Idle on the show either.
Anybody have any idea what’s going on here? I thought it might have originally been an English show, and the episode guide was for the UK version, but they list the same host, and there’s a distinct shortage of UK panel-show regulars in the guests.
Nope! Clearly labeled as 11-Mar-15. Also, Eric Idle (and maybe the @Midnight twitter account?) were tweeting about him being on the show in the last few weeks.
Eric Idle’s official account, not April 1. E.g., https://twitter.com/kaitlinpiraro/status/573927830406352897 . That’s actually some some random tweeter, but @EricIdle retweeted it and replied to it identifying his fellow panelists. (If there’s a good way to search an individual account for tweets, I don’t know what it is–it was a pain to find that, so that’s as good an example as you’re gonna get.)
It’s also not just Eric Idle–the entire episode guide that I’m finding has no correlation to the episodes on youtube. Different panelists, different number of seasons…
Well, I don’t know what’s going on with Hulu, but if you Google: @Midfnight season 3 episode 34; it looks like you have at least a couple of options to watch the episode. The links provided specifically mention Eric Idle.
I’d provide a link but my stupid work computer wont allow it.
I can’t give any of the whys, but it seems that hulu is numbering this episode as the second year, 74th episode. This wouldn’t correspond either to calendar years (2015) which seem to be the lines for the season 3 numbering system you found. Instead it seems to treat the show’s anniversary in October as the start of a new season and simply counts episodes from there. Season 1 on hulu would be October 2013-Sept 2014, and October 2014-Sept 2015 would be Season 2.
About the remaining questions, I don’t know. This episode for March 11th is discussing news articles dated March 10th elsewhere online. That feels wrong compared to when I watch them on TV; they’re not live - there are obvious edits - but I thought they were taped earlier in the same day. It’s a puzzle.
My only other guess is that they’re prepared to film multiple episodes in case one’s a total flop with the studio audience, and the one you were looking for was pulled and didn’t air on that day.
Edit to add: there are many discrepencies between that listing and the wiki. See also episode 208. Possibly booked comedians are replaced, but it sounds from your comedian’s twitter like he did film an episode. Don’t know what happened to it.
Yeah, I was looking around for a more definitive tweet from @EricIdle because i"m anal that way, and I found one indicating that FSR he hadn’t been able to make the taping. It’s a topical show, so I don’t think they can really bank shows, but maybe they can, within reason.
You’d think that the episode guide would be more accurate, but maybe it’s just a matter of lagging to catch up with the show as aired vs. the show as billed.