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February 6, 2026·1 hr 20 min·5 clips

Bobby and Lindsay learn the Jennifer Hudson Show is canceled live on air while discussing whether daytime TV is dying.

The hallway wins. Bobby and Lindsay start with the Jennifer Hudson Show's Spirit Tunnel and treat it like the thing daytime TV accidentally built for itself. Canceled shows get swallowed. Celebrities sing because, apparently, that is just the deal now. Sherry's cancellation and Kelly Clarkson stopping become part of a bit where every network has to build a tunnel, and each tunnel gets longer and dumber until the hallway is basically the show. Then Ritz enters, making everything weirder. A cracker ad puts John Ham, Bowen Yang, and Scarlett Johansson on a jet ski that may or may not be touching water. The hosts stare at it like a cursed celebrity vision board, circling the slogan and the Mean Girls rhythm of "get on salties." The click does not reward anyone. It sends people to regular purchase links, which somehow makes the ad feel even more pointless. Everyone knows crackers exist. The deleted Ritz Island video gives the whole thing a tiny mystery, so Bobby and Lindsay start wondering whether a Super Bowl reveal is hiding behind the missing post. Snack marketing has lore now, apparently. The episode stays in classic Who Weekly mode: read the strange post, drag the phrasing, repeat the weirdest part until it becomes the only part that matters. By the end, a voicemail pulls the room from crackers into trademark enforcement. A paralegal explains why companies may feel boxed into protecting marks, even when the target is some small restaurant or shop. For a minute, it gets sincere. Lawyers still have to do the job, but some are quietly hoping the little business makes it. Then the show snaps back with "crunch crunch," folding legal nuance and snack chaos into one ridiculous pile.

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A sharp, silly ride through Spirit Tunnel mania, Ritz ad chaos, and trademark drama at Who? Weekly speed.

Who? Weekly is in fine nonsense-detective mode here, treating celebrity-adjacent scraps like tiny crime scenes. Bobby Finger and Lindsay Weber start with Jennifer Hudson's Spirit Tunnel, imagining it absorbing the whole daytime TV business until every canceled talk show just…

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A deleted Ritz ad, daytime TV spiral, and a trademark-law cameo - all gossip, full sprint.

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