In this episode:
- our review of The Expendables 2 (2012) starring Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger,
- lots of guns and people getting shot,
- even more blood and gore,
- Dolph Lundgren’s chemical engineering degree coming in handy,
- Chuck Norris facts,
- Van Damme’s accent,
- the high number of Indiana Jones references,
- “classic” combat,
- our ideas for the next sequel,
- the trailer for Seven Psychopaths (2012) ripping off David Spade’s Lost and Found (1999),
- a 100-year-old locked safe in Rob’s basement,
- world champion safe cracker Jeff Sitar,
- opening the safe on the air in a future episode,
- Nintendo Power magazine ceasing publication (1988-2012),
- Rob’s attempt to sell a huge crate of old issues,
- being duped into buying bad video games by Nintendo Power previews and reviews,
- Robs dog eating cat vomit,
- celebrity deaths (William Windom, Tony Scott, Neil Armstrong, Phyllis Diller, and Michael Clarke Duncan),
- Jesse Ventura’s “poisoned bottle water” conspiracy,
- the origin of the expression “the whole nine yards”,
- Greg meeting John Schneider of Dukes of Hazzard and Smallville,
- problems getting a good picture with him,
- deciding what items to get signed,
- Greg’s home-made Dukes of Hazzard birthday cake from 1982,
- and Wezzer’s rendition of the Dukes of Hazzard theme song.
1982 – Greg’s Dukes of Hazzard birthday cake.
2012 – Greg with John Schneider, imitating the DVD cover.
Pictures from the John Schneider Dodge Dealer Signings:
John Schneider signing, East Hanover, NJ, 8/17/2012
John Schneider signing, Sussex, NJ, 8/18/2012
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this felt like a paunch ‘classic’ : nicolas cage, sean connery, van damme impressions; michael jackson’s still-pending 50 billion dollar lawsuit; scatalogical humour – cat puke and fart noises; jesse ventura’s ‘conspeerahcees’ and your love for all things nintendo. i’m genuinely intrigued about the 100-year-old safe – can’t wait to see what’s inside. and greg: are you a clone of my cousin michael? the photo of you as a child looks so much like him at the same age!
I was a good looking kid, not sure what happened? Also, what I do remember was being annoyed that my mother gave the cake store my Dukes coloring book, from which they made the picture on the cake, but they didn’t give it back!
PS: Was that Webshots slideshow useable? I refuse to pay for a flickr account to add more photos there!
David, I agree, we’ve been veering back into classic Paunch territory. Glad you’re enjoying it. :) And Jeff Sitar is supposed to open the safe in about two weeks, so we’ll post the results then…unless there’s a booby trap inside, in which case we’ll be dead.
Greg, your slideshow worked for me. I recommend paying for Flickr though. It’s only $25 a year.
If that cake store is still there, you should sue them for the price of the coloring book, plus pain and suffering (maybe 50 billion dollars worth)? Get rich quick!