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Episode 213

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 213

In this episode:

  • vociferous comments for our old customer service call bit on YouTube,
  • Rob’s terrible Angry Video Game Bear parody video of the Angry Video Game Nerd,
  • celebrity deaths (Patty Andrews, Stan Musial, Ed Koch),
  • crazy Oreo Cookie Whisper Fight Super Bowl commercial video,
  • Volkswagon Game Day Video – Get in. Get Happy,
  • Oreo cookie sculptures,
  • defunct chain Computer City lives on in Denmark,
  • Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! (1986) anime,
  • lousy English fan dub video vs. original Japanese high quality video,
  • Storage Wars guy who thought a NES was worth $14,000,
  • Charlotte Rea,
  • Jim Nabors, Back Home in Indiana,
  • Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd show up in Japanese anime,
  • Once Upon Atari documentary (1999) (link),
  • Steve Jobs’s Apple car,
  • J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars 7,
  • Star Wars spin-off films involving Yoda, Han Solo, Boba Fett,
  • Jason Statham/Guy Ritchie movies,
  • where are DVDs for Star Wars Droids and Ewoks, or Disney’s Gummi Bears?,
  • Gary Busey’s new website (buseyzone.com),
  • upcoming Celebrity Apprentice All-Stars,
  • Dennis Haskins,
  • Transformers Monopoly board game,
  • possibly talking to Jim Shooter, then of Defiant Comics, in 1993,
  • stealing samples and promos from Heroes World Distribution dealer convention,
  • and Todd Rogers “Mr. Activision” lied about his video game record high scores.

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Episode 195

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 195

In this episode:

  • celebrity deaths (Vidal Sassoon and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys),
  • the Jackson family’s Pepsi deal,
  • Bill Pullman talking like “Macho Man” Randy Savage,
  • the crying wrestling fan (video),
  • Norm MacDonald’s boring golf tweets,
  • What Ever Happened To? (the Saturday Supercast podcast),
  • celebrity podcasts,
  • the upcoming Expendables 2 movie,
  • our review of God Bless America (2011) directed by Bobcat Goldthwait,
  • What Ever Happened To? (clock radios),
  • long sleeve T-shirts are contradictory,
  • sour cream doughnuts at Dunkin’ Donuts,
  • pointing out the flaw in the father’s line at the end of Dirty Dancing (1987),
  • What Ever Happened To? (Andy Milonakis),
  • having to be told to say “thank you” as a kid,
  • the Virtual Skipper series of yacht racing computer games,
  • the Tire Claw car security device (from the makers of The Club),
  • the infamous Nutley NJ tanning mom,
  • are all IHOP restaurants dumpy?,
  • things to do with your body when you’re dead,
  • politicians always getting caught cheating on spouses,
  • Dennis Haskins on and episode of Mad Men,
  • the whereabouts of Max Weinberg,
  • the strange Dating Brad Garrett failed reality/dating show,
  • Donald Trump suing Scotland,
  • space shuttle Enterprise flying over NYC,
  • Ringo Starr losing all his Beatles photographs,
  • Rob meeting Britta Phillips in 2003,
  • the Perfect Strangers video game (link),
  • J.J. Abrams turning Star Trek 13 (2013) into a comic book movie,
  • the quest for the maximum movie frame rate (Peter Jackson, James Cameron),
  • and Douglas Trumbull’s TORUS theater technology.

Rob meeting Britta Phillips of Satisfaction and Jem in 2003…

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Episode 173

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 173

In this episode:

  • reminiscing about Macho Man Randy Savage,
  • bad reviews for the new video game Duke Nukem Forever,
  • Duke being able to throw human feces at his enemies,
  • new versions of U.S. pennies,
  • the Bitcoin internet money controversy,
  • celebrity deaths (Jeff Conaway and Jack Kevorkian),
  • Nintendo’s preview of its upcoming Wii U,
  • custom made video game consoles (Ben Heck),
  • our review of Super 8 (2011) directed by J.J. Abrams,
  • our review of The Hangover 2 (2011) starring Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis,
  • George Lopez starring in a remake of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
  • 4D movie technology Smell-O-Vision (article),
  • going to school on super hot summer days,
  • Nicolas Cage’s son Weston beaten up by Nic’s security guard,
  • and Al Pacino.

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Episode 131: Sunday, May 10, 2009

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 131 - our Star Trek review

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,
  • Nicolas Cage’s car crash,
  • and forgetting the movie Cloverfield (2008).

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Episode 76: Monday, July 9, 2007

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 076

The Paunch Stevenson Show super mega movie review of Transformers!

In this episode:

  • our Transformers (2007) movie review with Adam in SC,
  • the Transformers’ lack of dialogue and personality,
  • shaky camera work during battles,
  • lengthy transformations,
  • Hugo Weaving’s lame Megatron voice,
  • Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime,
  • Darius McCrary as the voice of Jazz,
  • the Allspark cube,
  • eBay,
  • the World Wide Web and Al Gore,
  • Jon Voight’s pronunciation of “robot,”
  • a list of movies that Transformers (2007) ripped off (They Live, Small Soldiers, Superman, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Independence Day, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, etc.),
  • the lack of machines in the 1930s,
  • Kremzeek,
  • the lack of the Transformers’ backstory,
  • the trailer for the upcoming untitled J.J. Abrams movie (2008),
  • season two of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? starring Stan Lee,
  • our movie review of Live Free or Die Hard (2007) starring Bruce Willis and Justin Long,
  • Herbie the Love Bug,
  • the Transformers peeing and playing hide and seek,
  • impressive fan CGI,
  • and a line from The Transformers: The Movie (1986).

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