In this episode:
- Chris Elliott’s performance of “Rocket Man” on Late Night with David Letterman circa 1990,
- The Jay Leno Show on NBC,
- Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter,
- Norm Macdonald on Tom Green’s House Tonight singing We Didn’t Start The Fire,
- Rob’s comments being deleted from sugaryserials.com,
- our movie review of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) starring Laurence Olivier,
- our movie review of Extract (2009) starring Jason Bateman,
- our teachers being struck by lightning,
- Whiteout (2009) starring Kate Beckinsale,
- listener Esteban from Please Save Me Robots/Roboplastic Apocalypse posting comments,
- the upcoming movie Hancock 2 (2012) starring Will Smith,
- the new Star Tours ride based on the Star Wars prequels,
- celebrity deaths (Ted Kennedy and Patrick Swayze),
- guys throwing monster truck tires down the street,
- the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm,
- the Seinfeld reunion,
- and a salesman getting stabbed by the sword he’s selling on the Shop at Home Network.
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I just checked and the comments I left on sugaryserials.com have been restored. I’ll keep listening to the Saturday Supercast now. It’s actually a good, fun podcast and I wish new episodes were released more frequently.
If those guys ever analyze The Transformers or Jem, I want to be on those episodes!
Well Rob I guess it’s one thing if you comment and the post never shows up (like what would happen to me occasionally with you guys) and a totally different matter if your post gets deleted after making it through. It was funny hearing your rant about the situation and the ensuing boycott. Boy you get passionate! I almost wish they would have kept it deleted so I could tell you about how great the next episodes of their show were, knowing you had that boycott thing going. That would have been funny.
Jay Leno totally ripped off my idea of quitting something then doing a new thing the same as the old thing except more boring.
OKAY WHICH ONE OF YOU BOUGHT THIS?
Esteban, $20,100 on an old NES video game? I know that particular cartridge is rare and special, but still, I would never spend anywhere near that much money on a video game or toy. To me, even $100 is extreme for something so unimportant. There are much better ways I could spend that $20k and I’m sure you and Greg would agree.
It seems like the people who collect those ridiculously expensive video games are the same people who spend hours scouring their local thrift stores every day, hoping to find something valuable among the junk. It’s their get-rich-quick scheme. Really though, how many people in the last 100 years have been able to retire because of an amazing thrift store find? I’m guessing none.
I feel bad about my little Saturday Supercast rant. The episodes I’ve listened to (G.I. Joe and He-Man) were great and I wish they’d post new episodes more frequently. They make Greg and me look like the most prolific podcasters ever.
I think when you feel bad about saying something on the show those are some of the most interesting parts of the show! At least from a listener perspective most rants are entertaining to listen to and even moreso when the subject of the rant is something I’m familiar with and slightly silly like comment problems with blogs or podcast sites. Issues with comments being deleted or not showing up happen to everyone at some time or another I guess. I’ve just never heard anyone express how they feel about those situations so the passion you displayed sounded so fresh and yet so familiar.
There is nothing stopping you and Greg from doing those Transformer and Jem shows yourself! I’ve heard you talk about that stuff before and very little separates your style from that of the Supercast. With a little preparation you guys could do the same style show and it’d fit within the context of what you’re doing now.
I just found out I now live in the same suburb where Billy Mitchell has his restaurant chain! Heck I probably live in the same suburb where Billy Mitchell lives. I’m going to get me some of that barbecue sauce!
$20,000 is most outrageous but there has to be some historical videogame significance there. I just lack the perspective to appreciate it. Maybe this is some sort of engineering achievement or Nintendo corporate secrets can be divulged from examining this cart’s construction. There has to be something I don’t know going on here. Couldn’t a ROM be written that would perform like this cart? Most strange of all is that it was bought originally at a garage sale. I wonder if that’s true or a cover story so the owner who’s probably an ex-employee wouldn’t get sued.
Esteban, well then we expect your celebrity photo with Billy Mitchell any time now!
Hey Rob & Greg – Haven’t had a chance to listen to this episode yet, but I just wanted to pipe up and say that anything getting dropped from Sugary Serials is a glitch. Can’t wait to hear the rant though, like Esteban mentioned, rants are super fun to listen to. Instant passion and all that.
As for the Supercast, we’ve got a new episode up finally. It’s on Halloween specials, and we’ve got a couple more we’re working on that are int he research stage (e.g. watching a metric crap ton of cartoons.)
Feel free to delete this comment at will ;)
Oh heck yeah I’d love a picture with that guy but after my last convention where the guest celebrities were charging for autographs and pictures I’m wondering if Billy Mitchell will do the same. Plus the guy seems paranoid about the use of his image after threatening to sue the King of Kong producers so I wonder if I’ll he’ll make me sign legal documents before taking his picture. I don’t have anything Billy Mitchell could sign anyways but a picture is definitely a goal. It’s funny how outside of the convention doors he’s just another guy. I feel like you two are the only other people I know who are aware of who Billy Mitchell is. It’s crazy how the notion of celebrity pretty much applies to anybody nowadays.
You know who else will be there? That guy who calls himself “That Guy with the Glasses” aka “The Nostalgia Critic”. He’d be my first encounter with an internet celebrity. It’ll be interesting to see if I can get pictures with that guy, too. To top it off there’s a guy who does geek based stand-up comedy at conventions named Aaron Pabon. He’s oftentimes billed as “the geek comedian” and he’s carved out a bit of a niche doing stand-up at pop culture cons. I don’t think he’s as funny as the Nostalgia Critic but that’s probably because I don’t understand nerd humor that’s not about toy robots.
Shawn, thanks for the comment! I really liked the G.I. Joe and He-Man episodes of the Saturday Supercast and I’ll definitely listen to the new Halloween episode. I especially like the fact that you and the other hosts analyze the cartoons seriously and sincerely, instead of being sarcastic and making fun of everything. Greg and I are overly-critical and cynical about many things, but we usually talk about old cartoons and video games fondly, while still pointing out their flaws.
Regarding my brief rant, I’ve gotten much angrier at other things on the show, like the two Michael Bay Transformers movies, Get a Life not being out on DVD, etc., so don’t get your hopes up for an all-out explosion of rage. This rant was very mild because I enjoyed listening to your podcast so much.
Esteban, if I hadn’t seen The King of Kong when it was in theaters, I probably wouldn’t know who Billy Mitchell is, either. It’d be awesome if you could get a picture with him. “Donkey Kong kill screen coming up!”
In June 2008, Greg and I got pictures with James Rolfe the Angry Video Game Nerd at the Digital Press retro video game store in NJ. That same day, the Nostalgia Critic/That Guy with the Glasses was there and challenged the AVGN to a fight in the parking lot. I snapped a great photo of the two of them, mid-challenge.
Flickr is blocked here, so I’ll post the photo when I get home from work.
Here’s my picture of the Nostalgia Critic challenging the Angry Video Game Nerd to a fight:
Here’s my whole photo album from that day: Digital Press, Clifton, NJ 6/28/08
you touch on something in this episode that i’ve noticed; that film trailers – TV spots especially – are so short and vague that you don’t know what the film is about. they don’t entice you to go see them, and as a knock-on effect no-one is talking about them; so there’s not even a buzz being created. back in the 80’s there were at least two films a week coming out that you HAD to go see and maybe about another twenty were the topic of conversation in the school yard because of the expectation surrounding the trailers.