In this episode:
- a celebrity death (Andy Griffith),
- the questionable courtroom antics of Ben Matlock,
- What Ever Happened To? (Hal Sparks),
- Love Connection hosted by Chuck Woolery,
- What Ever Happened To? (Barret Oliver, star of The NeverEnding Story and D.A.R.Y.L.),
- Tom Cruise getting another divorce (Katie Holmes),
- middle-aged former action stars going mental,
- more movie remakes coming (Robocop, Total Recall, and Mad Max),
- former soccer player and current commentator Steve “Maca” McManaman talkng like Paul McCartney,
- Stan Lee’s cameo on the Muppet Babies cartoon,
- The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989) starring Lou Ferrigno,
- Get A Life the complete series finally coming to DVD!,
- sitcoms without laugh tracks,
- mattress companies all starting with the letter “S”,
- a Brett Butler update,
- SyFy TV movie Bigfoot (2012) starring Barry Williams and Danny Bonaduce,
- What Ever Happened To? (Kel Mitchell from Keenan and Kel),
- dumb 1990s rumors involving side effects of drinking too much Arizona iced tea,
- local NJ competitive eater Maria Edible,
- a Kickstarter project for an updated version of the classic 1983 video game M.U.L.E.,
- creator of the game Dan Bunton a.k.a Danielle Bunton Berry,
- Stan Lee is Cameo Man,
- What Ever Happened To? (competitive eater Kate Stelnick),
- the current Canadian lousy pop song invasion,
- the “Call Me Maybe” craze by Carly Rae Jepsen,
- the new Beach Boys album That’s Why God Made the Radio (2012),
- the upcoming Disney animated video-game-themed movie Wreck-It Ralph (2012),
- the various voice acting styles of Super Mario,
- our review of Prometheus (2012) directed by Ridley Scott,
- the Greek god Prometheus being a trickster,
- early development involving James Cameron,
- fan reaction, comparison to the previous Alien films, source of backstory,
- ancient alien concept, fuzzy math, scary moment, a race of angry Mr. Cleans,
- and the quality of the IMAX 3D presentation.
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Sad that Griffith passed. On side note, saw tabloid at grocery checkout, headline mysterious death of Andy Griffith to be investigated. He was 84! Mystery solved.
Get A Life…greatest show ever. I have also been waiting for its reappearance. Chris Elliott’s dad, famous from the old Bob and Ray radio show plays his dad and is possibly the funniest character, along with the mom. I think you may have missed mentioning the father/son real life connection. (could be wrong about you missing it, but I don’t remember you mentioning it). And guess what? I did some homework on Stan Lee and I finally get the paunch meme
I still have the old VHS tape that I recorded “The Trial of the Incredible Hulk” on when it first came out. But ever since my desktop died I’ve had no way to transfer VHS to a digital format.
I was just watching that tape the other day when I pulled it out looking to find another show that I knew was on it. I looked at the wikipedia entry about this Hulk movie and was surprised that it’s Stan’s first cameo. I wouldn’t say he’s the foreman, it’s more like he’s just a juror and the foreman is some other lady. But he does get some decent screen time when the Hulk attacks the jury box.
Esteban found a click of a Ferrigno Hulk out with Stan Lee sitting in the jury box, and taking off at the first sign of trouble!
Steve, I can’t wait for the Get a Life DVD boxed set. I can’t remember if I ever mentioned it on the show, but I knew that Bob was Chris Elliott’s real father. The parents’ reactions to Chris’s antics were part of what made the series so funny. They knew he was an idiot and couldn’t wait for him to grow up and move out of the house.
Esteban, the premise of the Hulk being put on trial is hilarious. I imagine the wild, insane Hulk sitting on the witness stand, describing “in his own words” what happened. Who comes up with this stuff, and why does it get approved??
the ‘macca’ nickname is quite common in the north west of england due to the massive irish communities in liverpool and manchester – i live inbetween these two cities and the letters ‘mc’ are at the beginning of at least half my friend’s names. abbreviating people’s names is the practice among my liverpudlian friends – for example, i’ve been called ‘day’ – down to first syllable; and even ‘d’ – down to the first letter! i think it’s just part of northern culture and is informed by local wit and continued through football and pop culture – madonna was labelled ‘madge’ when she lived in england. and falkor from ‘the neverending story’ looks like victoria ‘posh spice’ beckham – go on, have a look if you don‘t believe me.
Yes I figured it was the Irish. Yes, she does resembled the giant flying dog.
D, Wendy Williams also resembles Falkor. Victoria Beckham is an even better match though. Remember the web site menwholooklikekennyrogers.com? We need womenwholooklikefalkor.com!