Episode 41 - The Great Boondoggles (or the Buffoondoggles!) of 1994

It wasn't all hand-over-fist success stories back in 1994, no sir! There were also ego driven flights of fancy and wild money-making schemes that backfired royally! Sarah & Joe dive deep into this pack of '94 boondoggles, including the Steven Spielberg theme restaurant Dive!, Joseph Heller's Catch-22 sequel Closing Time, the Canadian Football League's ill-advised expansion into America, and Fox's abortive live-action Krusty the Clown spin-off from The Simpsons. The restaurant industries of Los Angeles and Las Vegas get a glance, plus the fanbases and appetites for foreign football in places like Sacramento, Shreveport, Baltimore, and Memphis, random spin-off football leagues like the XFL and the Lingerie Football League, and what the ramifications could've been had Krusty the Clown actually aired. Are three-decade-plus sequels a good idea in any medium? Should they give the CFL another shot in the U.S.? Will The Simpsons ever actually end? There is plenty speculated about in this information packed, quixotic forty-first episode!