The Paunch Stevenson Show

In this episode:

• getting Joe in KY and Kelly from www.wrestlecrap.com on the show,
• celebrity deaths (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and David Carradine),
• Alan Alda and “Weird Al” Yankovic,
• Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford supposedly killing each other on a movie set in New Zealand,
• a guest celebrity death by Lauren Elder from the Broadway cast of Hair (Michael Jackson),
• Tiffani-Amber Thiessen refusing to participate in Jimmy Fallon’s Saved by the Bell reunion,
• our phone call with Michael Jackson from December 2005,
• Paul McCartney,
• celebrities we’ve recently met (Al Unser Jr., Janeane Garofalo, and Dan Aykroyd),
• An Evening with Kevin Smith at Carnegie Hall,
• the upcoming video game Wet featuring the voice of Eliza Dushku,
• our movie review of The Dark Knight (2008) starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger,
• the Atari 5200 USB 128-in-1 flash multi-cart on www.atarimax.com,
• the Nintendo Entertainment System PowerPak flash cart www.retrousb.com,
• Jimmy Justice’s YouTube videos,
• Uncle Floyd Vivino running for governor of New Jersey,
• and our giant movie review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox.
• (here’s our giant review of Michael Bay’s first Transformers movie)

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In this episode:

• our movie review of The General (1927) starring Buster Keaton,
• Shout! Factory’s Transformers and G.I. Joe DVD boxed sets,
• problems with Rhino’s Transformers DVD boxed sets,
• the quality of cartoon writing in the 1980s vs. today,
• The World of David the Gnome,
• the USA Cartoon Express,
• Mr. Wilson played by two different actors in Dennis the Menace,
• TV channels that show old sitcoms (AmericanLife TV Network, FamilyNet, etc.),
• The Dark Knight 1960s version,
• the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) public access TV station in NYC (Invasion Earth hosted by Harvey Wiesenberg, Star Crash, Wild Record Collection, etc.),
• and The Uncle Floyd Show (www.unclefloyd.com).

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In this episode:

• Mike Tyson and Jennifer Connelly growing up in the Catskill Mountains,
• the series finale of MADtv on Fox,
• the season finale of Saturday Night Live featuring Will Ferrell, Norm Macdonald, Tom Hanks, and other celebrities (Celebrity Jeopardy! video),
• the series finale of My Name Is Earl on NBC,
• Norm Macdonald playing Burt Reynolds’s son,
• Dollhouse starring Eliza Dushku,
• Dane Cook’s new comedy special Isolated Incident,
• the commercial for the movie Drag Me to Hell (2009),
• hip hop artist Danger Mouse releasing a CD-R as his new album,
• the horrendous state of rock and pop music,
• Frankie Valli and The Bee Gees singing with weird chicken voices,
• listener mail from Dawn in NJ (Disney eggs),
• children’s food gimmicks (Smurfs SpaghettiOs, Pac-Man cereal, Marshmallow Krispies, Cookie Crisp, etc.),
• Cap’n Crunch cereal melting in milk,
• a celebrity death (Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse),
• What Ever Happened To? (Disney’s classic characters),
• the origin of Baba Booey,
• the new premium movie channel Epix,
• Star Trek (2009) movie reviews by listeners Joe in KY and Dennis in CA,
• and Dennis’s waterboarding contest.

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In this episode:

• listeners Paul and Juan is Missouri,
• Esteban quitting Please Save Me Robots,
• John Madden retiring and being sued,
• Keanu Reeves winning the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach,
• Coldplay being sued by Cat Stevens,
• celebrity deaths (Bea Arthur and Dom DeLuise),
• flat caps,
• the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game,
• Nintendo Wii MotionPlus being released in June,
• a new Ghostbusters movie,
• watching internet videos on Verizon FiOS cable TV,
• and a guy acting like a maniac on the NYC subway.

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Our big Star Trek (2009) review! (includes spoilers)

In this episode:

• big upcoming summer movies,
• Land of the Lost (2009) starring Will Ferrell,
• Year One (2009) starring Jack Black and Michael Cera,
• our movie review of Role Models (2008) starring Paul Rudd,
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) starring Dennis Quaid,
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) starring Shia LaBeouf,
• our movie review of Star Trek (2009) starring Chris Pine,
• Greg’s veteran fan perspective and Rob’s newbie perspective,
• Frank from The Overnightscape and his Twitter posts about Star Trek,
• canon vs. reboot,
• Zachary Quinto as Spock,
• the rest of the cast (Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, etc.),
• the annoying shaky camera technique,
• ways J.J. Abrams could’ve included William Shatner in the movie,
• Captain Pike’s wheelchair,
• Star Trek vs. the Star Wars prequels,
• rescuing Romulans,
• Nicholas Cage’s car crash,
• and forgetting the movie Cloverfield (2008).

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In this episode:

• our trip to the Brooklyn Museum to see Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) starring Paul Reubens and Mark Holton,
• The Pee-wee Herman Show live stage show in 1980,
• Phil Hartman,
• Peter Cullen narrating the new Coors Light commercial,
• Frank Welker as the voice of Soundwave and Ravage in the upcoming movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009),
• listener email from Esteban in South Dakota (http://pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com/),
• the Snickers Nougabot Bar featuring Bumblebee,
• the upcoming movie Dance Flick (2009) starring Damon Wayans Jr.,
• our movie review of The Lion in Winter (1968) starring Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn,
• our movie review of Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) starring Pat Boone,
• Regis Philbin dressed up as Shrek on Late Show with David Letterman,
• Rob winning a car phone in the sixth grade fundraiser,
• the Digital Press video game store used in Capital One’s new credit card commercial,
• Greg switching from Comcast to Verizon FiOS,
• and DVD bitrates.

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Regis Philbin is on overload lately. First, he appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, dressed as Shrek. Next, there was news that ABC will bring back Who Wants to be a Millionaire this August for a two week run.

YouTube - Regis as Shrek on David Letterman

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In this episode:

• different video file formats and YouTube,
• an Eliza Dushku contest on MySpace (video),
• people customizing their MySpace profiles to look stupid,
• The Celebrity Apprentice starring Tom Green and Scott Hamilton,
• the current state of TV,
• our review of Nobel Son (2007) starring Alan Rickman and Danny DeVito,
• Disney retracing its own animation (video 1, video 2),
• and Rob finding $200 in his bedroom.

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“Disney only ever made one movie and they’ve been tracing it ever since.”

If you think Filmation’s technique of reusing stock footage in the 1980s was a bit excessive, this video demonstrates that Disney has been doing the same thing for decades. The difference is Filmation was producing daily cartoon shows for TV and Disney is producing big-budget theatrical films.

TodaysBigThing.com - Disney Reuses Its Own Animation

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Billy Bob Thorton was a complete moron and extremely rude in this interview with Jian Ghomeshi on the Canadian radio show Q (April 8, 2009):

YouTube - Billy Bob Thornton’s rude interview on Q

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