In this episode:

• a Paunch Stevenson Show update: Mel Blanc’s voice was definitely used in Daffy’s Rhapsody,
• thoughts on New Girl and college cuisine from new Paunch fan Steve Rugel,
• calling the Diarrhea Doctor,
• the Beatles kids band, with James McCartney, Sean Lennon, Dhani Harrison, and Jason Starr,
• new Paunch fans Adam and his son Nate impersonating Stan Lee,
• spacemandavid’s “comment” marathon,
• Penn Jillette fired on The Celebrity Apprentice,
• Arrested Development returning in 2013 with new episodes on Netflix,
• our review of Horrible Bosses (2011), starring Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day,
• Chris Diamantopoulos, the new Moe Howard,
• “I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining,” a live action episode of South Park,
• Steven Seagal brings cheaply produced former Soviet bloc action movies to Reelz Channel in True Justice,
• animated interpretation of The Kid From Brooklyn (link),
• Tupac Shakur hologram,
• Pepper’s ghost illusion,
• Rob’s dorky Looney Tunes t-shirt collection in the 1990s,
• What Ever Happened To? (Calista Flockhart),
• Liverpool, England obsessed with Donny Osmond,
• Axl Rose too out of shape to sing,
• wild turkeys running loose in New Jersey,
• What Ever Happened To? (our interest in the International Federation of Competitive Eating),
• blame for high gasoline prices,
• the other MTV Julie Brown on YouTube,
• the Paunch luck: 92Y Tribeca screening, Q&A with Chris Elliott sold out,
• Bobcat Goldthwait,
• the fantastic website Pica-pic.com that lets you play 1980s hand-held LCD games,
• the free application Joy2Key that maps keyboard keys to a computer joystick,
• celebrity deaths (Dick Clark, Jonathan Frid, and Levon Helm),
• Howard Stern as the newest judge on the TV competition show America’s Got Talent,
• and one of Greg’s favorite musical groups The Band.

Rob wearing one of his infamous Looney Tunes t-shirts in 1994…

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• Cheat our way to episode 200?,
• our review of The Three Stooges (2012), starring Will Sasso, Sean Hayes, and Chris Diamantopoulos, directed by the Farrelly Brothers,
• Moe beats up the cast of the Jersey Shore,
• sequel to Twins (Triplets), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Devito, and Eddie Murphy,
• Google Maps 8-bit April Fools gag,
• watching The Big Lebowski (1998), starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman, at the landmark Loews Jersey Theater,
• Rob’s dissactifaction with Zooey Deschanel on New Girl on FOX,
• Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion dollars,
• Greg always getting You Tube errors,
• Lou Ferrigno finally gets fired on The Celebrity Apprentice,
• KFC chicken pot pie,
• Marvel fanboys attending a 6-movie marathon leading up to The Avengers,
• our review of 21 Jump Street (2012), starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum,
• our review of Disney’s box office bomb, John Carter (2012),
• Lifetime television movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable (2012), starring Rob Lowe,
• celebrity deaths: Mike Wallace and Jack Tramiel,
• Tramiel’s role (or non-role?) in the downfall of Atari,
• and one reason why the NEC TurboGrafx-16 flopped.

Also, as custom, here’s my camera phone shot of The Big Lebowski on the big screen….

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• well-aged James Lipton,
• Celebrity Apprentice 5 starring Lou Ferrigno, Michael Andretti, Debbie Gibson, and Adam Carrolla,
• old former WWF and WWE wrestlers dancing (video),
• the movie Casa de mi Padre (2012) starring Will Ferrell speaking Spanish,
• riots in Florida over $300 Nike Foamposite One Galaxy sneakers the people won’t wear,
• Masters of the Universe Classics toys, Voltron Classics, and movie Ghostbusters figures on MattyCollector.com,
• Saved by the Bell complete series DVD set in Canada with French audio track,
• @SpaceManDavid pointing out our episodal deja vu,
• a Broadband in Gas update (our original discussion in episode 46),
• making fart sounds using various body parts,
• local NYC TV station WPIX 11′s “PIX” game revival,
• The Paunch Stevenson Show being ripped off by the Sklarbro Country Podcast (link),
• and a stupid style: return of bloomers.

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• celebrity deaths (Gary Carter, Jan Berenstain, and Davy Jones),
• the Berenstain Bears, Paddington the Bear, and the Lollipop Dragon,
• Jason Malachi (the fake Michael Jackson) singing on Jackson’s 2010 album Michael,
• Jaleel White competing on Dancing With The Stars season 14,
• the fantastic chemistry between Jaleel White and Reginald VelJohnson on the TV show Family Matters,
• @spacemandavid‘s Paunch marathons,
• friend of the show Jack Silbert (@JackSilbert),
• Mr. Bruno’s Pizzeria in Lyndhurst, NJ,
• the original Star Wars trilogy in 3D not coming until 2015,
• Michael Bay now re-imagining/ruining the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
• and the next generation Xbox: no optical drive?

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• our review of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (2012) starring The Rock and Michael Caine,
• the Looney Tunes 3D animated short Daffy’s Rhapsody starring Billy West and Mel Blanc,
• Greg’s wacky vivid dream featuring Eliza Dushku, Eliza’s older non-existent sister, VCRs, a concert hall, an airport, and Ed Begley, Jr.,
• a local Red Robin waiter entering a hamburger eating competition,
• is Nicolas Cage an immortal vampire?,
• dueling Nick Cages on Saturday Night Live,
• Macauley Culkin’s dreadful appearance,
• George Lucas trying to settle the “Han or Greedo shot first” controversy,
• Bill Murray being replaced in Ghostbusters 3?,
• Paul Shaffer originally being offered the role of George Costanza on Seinfeld,
• a celebrity death (Whitney Houston),
• Michael Bay on board to direct Transformers 4 (2014),
• Paunch Stevenson Show listener @spacemandavid commenting on every episode,
• another stupid remake (21 Jump Street),
• Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men TV show on AMC,
• Ouija boards: real or hoax?,
• and Super Bowl XLVI.

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• pictures of the So You Want To Be A Dancer guy from our British fan @spacemandavid,
• the “Ringo Remembers” skits on the BBC’s The Peter Serafinowicz Show,
• long-time fan Esteban reminds us of the Robotix (1985) cartoon featuring the voices of Peter Cullen, Michael Bell, Frank Welker, Corey Burton, and Arthur Burghardt,
• What Ever Happened To? (“Lord of the Dance” Michael Flatley),
• Marky Mark Wahlberg claiming he would’ve single-handedly stopped 9/11,
• Betty White’s 90th birthday,
• celebrity deaths (Ben Gazzara, Don Cornelius, “Mr. Pitt” Ian Abercrombie, Robert Hegyes, and Joe Paterno),
• Marvel Comics cologne,
• Frank Nora (onsug.com) following the development of the video game Pinball Arcade (pinballarcade.com),
• where’s the MAME pinball cabinet?,
• What Ever Happened To? (Dan Cortese),
• career pitfalls for past MTV VJs,
• the Megaupload fury,
• starting the day with chocolate and sugar-infested cereals,
• and our long-awaited review of The People vs. George Lucas (2010) documentary.

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• the TV show Toy Hunters on the Travel Channel,
• toy prototypes (Boba Fett with rocket, Thundercats),
• the Bud Bowl and Puppy Bowl,
• Madonna being sued by the Girls Gone Wild creator,
• Giselle Bundchen’s chain letter for her husband Tom Brady,
• celebrity Super Bowl XLVI picks,
• Roseanne Barr running for President,
• Pat Sajak hosting Wheel of Fortune drunk,
• Ricky Gervais’s complete lack of screen time as host of the Golden Globes (false advertising by NBC),
• the 1990s Titanic movie phenomenon,
• the remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) movie only two years after the original,
• celebrities changing the pronounciation of their names (Cheech Marin, Demi Moore, and Kim Basinger),
• William Shatner hanging out with Stan Lee,
• the web site awesome people hanging out together,
• the use of ammonia (a.k.a. Pink Slime) in fast food hamburgers,
• and Ed Grimley.

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• Star Wars movies being re-released in theaters in 3D starting with The Phantom Menace,
• Rob’s Star Wars knowledge derived only from video games,
• Darth Vader and Jedi hamburgers in France (link),
• What Ever Happened to? (Hayden Christensen),
• Shattered Glass (2003) starring Hayden Christensen,
• cross dressing Larry a.k.a. Lana Wachowski,
• upcoming box office bomb Cloud Atlas (2012) starring Hugh Grant and Keith David,
• the new Van Halen with David Lee Roth song “Tattoo”,
• Hulk Hogan shaving his mustache,
• Chuck Norris joining The Expendables 2 (2012) cast,
• Rowdy Roddy Piper wrestling in an episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia,
• Hasbro’s Transformers G1 toys (Masterpiece, Classics, etc.),
• Michael Bay’s 3D Transformers The Ride,
• Transformers Vault: The Complete Transformers Universe by Pablo Hidalgo,
• Star Trek Vault: 40 Years from the Archives by Scott Tipton,
• Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures from the Lucasfilm Archives by Stephen Sansweet,
• Barnes & Noble selling used books,
• Moon 3-D and Mars 3-D books by Jim Bell,
• local psychos (Donnie T and his bag of wrestling figures and Donnie D and his bike without brakes),
• hiding from annoying kids during childhood,
• and Mio Water Enhancer.

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• the Mayan apocalypse of 2012,
• infamous medieval fortune teller Nostradamus,
• 1980s housekeeper sitcoms (Benson, Mr. Belvedere, Charles in Charge, Who’s the Boss?),
• “Ranger Joe” Dave Coulier from Full House,
• the 50th anniversary reunion tour of The Beach Boys,
• a Politically Incorrect skit starring Louie Anderson as Newt Gingrich and Bill Maher as the Godfather,
• Bored to Death gets canceled,
• our movie review of Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010),
• William Campbell,
• Paul McCartney’s new 2012 album Kisses on the Bottom (1930s era songs),
• Keith Richards fighting off a fan on stage with his guitar,
• the Give My Regards to Broadstreet video game on the Commodore 64,
• Robin Williams naming his children after video game characters,
• CCG (collectible card game) stores and players,
• giant board games (Axis and Allies, X-Men Under Siege),
• Twitter follower @spacemandavid asking us to refer to him as Mrs. Paunch Stevenson,
• donate to Eliza Dushku’s Tharce-Gulu charity,
• and the dumb new DC Comics logo.

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Happy New Year!!

In this episode:

• a sing off: Eliza Dushku’s “Freedom” vs. Paul McCartney’s “Freedom”,
• Yoko Ono ruining the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus performances,
• John Lennon in The Dirty Mac with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards,
• Rob’s genius idea #1 (bomb scare to cancel a sports game),
• Jean-Claude Van Damme playing hockey in Sudden Death (1995),
• Rob’s genius idea #2 (everybody gets a free crime to commit),
• Tom Cruise hires people to be his fans in India,
• Tom Hanks posting pictures of his injured thumb on Twitter,
• our new Paunch Twitter account,
• Alec Baldwin gets thrown off a plane and makes fun of it on Saturday Night Live,
• the trailer for the upcoming movie The Three Stooges (2012),
• a remake of Gilligan’s Island starring the cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• Unabomber Ted Kasinsky being tortured with CIA mind control,
• more incompetent bus drivers,
• What Ever Happened To? (comedian Bob Nelson),
• the new Modern Warfare video game making $4 billion in its first few days of sales,
• Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake suing Hogan’s ex-wife,
• Miyamoto not retiring from Nintendo,
• our Lame Idiot of the Year award goes to Charlie Sheen,
• and the runner up is Kim Kardashian.

Here’s our take on the Curb Your Enthusiasm cast starring in a new Gilligan’s Island!

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