[This week's speed rounds have been selected from our archives by Terri. This one originally ran in September 2016, and includes our old friend Amanda Morin.]

You might expect people who talk as much as we do to be ready for a little action, but when it comes right down to it, we're a sidekick kinda group. Find out who alone among us was ready to assume both great power and great responsibility, and tell us which role you'd pick in the comments here or on our Facebook page.

[This week's speed rounds have been selected from our archives by Terri. This one originally ran in September 2016, and includes our old friend Amanda Morin.]

All this week on Parenting Roundabout Speed Round, we'll be playing a game of "Would You Rather?" Today's question: Would you rather be able to reverse one decision you make every day or stop time for ten seconds every day? And while all of us were underwhelmed by that ten-second time break, two of us were flat-out horrified at the notion of being able to act on our endless second-guessing (as detailed in Episode 136). Which option would you pick? State your case in the comments here or on our Facebook page.

[This week's speed rounds have been selected from our archives by Terri. This one originally ran in August 2017.] 

We do some quick takes on pies vs. cakes. Also cookies vs. brownies, hard ice cream vs. soft, and fruit vs. chocolate. Mentioned: discussions on bake sales, raisins (38:15) and refrigerator freezers (29:12).

Your road map to this week's entertainment-themed podcast:

00:47 Trophy Wife: Terri has figured out why this show works: Its pleasantly surprising plot pivots, like the Scandal parody in "The Minutes."

06:25 The West Wing: The First Lady is still mad, CJ is asking hard questions, and Will Bailey really, really likes fireworks in "Jefferson Lives."

15:12 Challenge Round: Coco: Pixar does it again with this beautiful, visually inventive movie starring an aspiring musician and a sweeter-than-you-might-think skeleton. Nos gustó mucho!

For next week, Terri challenged Catherine to watch the pilot episode of Burn Notice (another fun series from the USA Network stable). We'll also finish up our Trophy Wife watch with the final three episodes ("There's No Guy in Team," "Back to School," and "Mother's Day") and continue with The West Wing season 5 ("Han").

[We're taking turns picking out some favorite episodes to share with you on weeks when vacations disrupt our usual chattiness. Terri raided our archives for today's full episode (from August 11, 2017) and the speed rounds you'll hear on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Tomorrow, though, you can listen to a brand new Round 2.]

00:59 Back to School: Nicole's daughter headed back to school, which somehow led us to reminisce about Gym Classes of Our Past.

08:00 All the Drama, None of the Fame and Fortune: Terri sometimes feels her life is a bad detective show. Catherine is stuck in a not-that-funny sitcom, and Nicole's family drama is exhaustingly dramatic. What TV show is your family inadvertently starring in?

20:00 Friday Speed Round: Summer Reading: This question about what our kids are reading this summer was mostly a confession of what they're not reading.

30:45 Roundabout Roundup: Terri shouted out Chase Bank's anti-fraud efforts, Catherine is stuck on these achievement stickers for freelancers, and Nicole swooned over Rolling Stone's Canadian cover boy.

37:22 Shameless Self-Promotion: Quick Fixes for Bee Stings, Bug Bites, Sunburns, and Other Summer Woes; 7 Signs Your Child Is in an Inclusive Class; podcast quote graphics on Facebook.

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.

We can't really enter the imaginary worlds of our favorite movies, TV shows, and plays, but we could theoretically hang with the folks who make them happen. On today's Speed Round, we pick some entertainers we'd like to entertain us in person.

So someone throws, say, a PERFECTLY GOOD banana muffin into the trash, one you had planned to eat for breakfast, and it's in a SEALED BAG, and it's in the kitchen trash that got emptied not THAT long ago, and you can find it to fish it out, would it be THAT terrible to rescue it and slather it with butter and eat it? It wouldn't, would it? Would it?

It was delicious.

On a recent Speed Round, in the course of a different discussion, Catherine mentioned this question: "If someone paid you to travel the world for the next three years, would you go?" We thought that sounded like a Speed Round in its own right, and now here it is! Although come to think of it, we're not so interested in the offer, unless Nicole's demands are met, anyway.

[Catherine and Terri are taking a vacation week on Round 2 and bringing you excerpts from a couple of entertainment-related episodes from way back in 2015. Next week's episode is new, though, as are all our other episodes this week.]

00:35: From Round 2, June 16, 2015: Spoilers have become a big point of Internet etiquette, but is it fair to expect everyone to wait to talk about entertainment they've enjoyed untll you've had a chance to catch up? We share our thoughts on the notion that imparting information on a piece of entertainment to someone who has not yet consumed it is inherently awful and cruel. We discussed the old days when TV Guide was in the spoiler business, the value of stories you already know the ending to (spoiler! things do not work out well for Romeo and Juliet), the buzz-dampening effect of dumping show episodes nobody can talk about yet, and the benefit of knowing you can always look up what happened on a show so you can safely watch while multitasking.

11:29: From Episode 52, January 29, 2015: The end of the NBC series Parenthood got us talking about an article by Linda Holmes on NPR's Monkey See blog on why such shows may have fallen out of favor; the family dramas we fell for in the past (and Terri apologizes here for talking and talking and talking about those shows — seriously, don't get her started — but if you want to join her in swooning over that Once and Again plotline with Eric Stoltz as Mr. Dimitri, start right here); and the shows we're paying attention to now. For more on the topic, and opinions from Amanda Morin and Nicole Eredics (who interject a bit in this segment), listen to the full episode.

For next week's new episode, we'll watch the next two episodes of Trophy Wife ("Couples Therapy" and "The Minutes"), The West Wing's "Jefferson Lives," and for the challenge round, Coco. Join us!

00:32 Rory the Hedgehog: Catherine catches us up on her prickly summer visitor.

08:23 Are You a Carpenter or a Gardener? Our discussion of this article on parenting styles devolved into a plan for Terri and Nicole to build a trellis and Catherine to buy it. 

19:49 Speed Round: What Is Your Theme Song? Catherine had a gardening-related tune at the ready, while Terri went for a Jimmy Buffett vibe and Nicole used this Buzzfeed quiz to help her out. (Also mentioned: "Crunchy Granola Suite," which turns out to be by Neil Diamond.)

24:34 Roundabout Roundup: We recommend two podcasts and one way to listen to them: a 99% Invisible episode on curb cuts, and the new Good Place podcast, plus these wireless headphones.

31:20 Shameless Self-Promotion: A new website for this podcast, "Let's Be Friends," and our very extensive podcast archives.

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.