Episode 204

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 204

We finally open Rob’s 111-year-old safe, thanks to World Champion Safe Cracker Jeff Sitar! What’s inside??

In this episode:

  • Rob’s bars of silver,
  • not keeping the boxes to our old toys growing up,
  • Dave Coulier constantly farting on the Full House set,
  • the Full House cast reunion,
  • the faux cast replacement for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,
  • opening Rob’s antique safe,
  • the defunct Victor Safe and Lock Company,
  • introducing World Champion Safe Cracker Jeff Sitar (website),
  • Jeff’s background in safe cracking,
  • working as a consultant on action/heist movies,
  • being featured on Discovery Channel, History Channel, Good Morning America, etc.,
  • bank vault safeguards,
  • what’s Rob’s safe worth?,
  • Jeff’s martial arts training,
  • Bruce Lee,
  • Jackie Chan contacting Jeff and sending him an autographed copy of his movie Rob-B-Hood (2006),
  • Horatio Sanz vs. Kevin Smith,
  • an amazing fan-made Star Wars Tie Fighter animation by Otaking77077 (video),
  • where CGI cartoon shows have gone wrong,
  • the Coleco Dukes of Hazzard Power Cycle,
  • toy and video game prices in 1983,
  • and Game Show Network’s dating show Baggage hosted by Jerry Springer.

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Episode 129: Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 129

In this episode:

  • different video file formats and YouTube,
  • an Eliza Dushku contest on MySpace (video),
  • people customizing their MySpace profiles to look stupid,
  • The Celebrity Apprentice starring Tom Green and Scott Hamilton,
  • the current state of TV,
  • our review of Nobel Son (2007) starring Alan Rickman and Danny DeVito,
  • Disney retracing its own animation (video 1, video 2),
  • and Rob finding $200 in his bedroom.

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Disney Reuses Its Own Animation

“Disney only ever made one movie and they’ve been tracing it ever since.”

If you think Filmation’s technique of reusing stock footage in the 1980s was a bit excessive, this video demonstrates that Disney has been doing the same thing for decades. The difference is Filmation was producing daily cartoon shows for TV and Disney is producing big-budget theatrical films.

TodaysBigThing.com – Disney Reuses Its Own Animation