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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In this episode:

• Paunch luck (East Coast Earthquake, Hurricane Irene, London Riots),
• Recapping Rob’s first trip to England,
• London sights (Abbey Road, London Underground, London Eye Ferris Wheel, and Big Ben),
• English cuisine, accents, and weather,
• Rob playing drums on Beatles songs at the Liverpool Cavern Club,
• lousy British reality television,
• The Love We Make (2011) documentary, starring Paul McCartney,
• “Rockestra 2″ (the remake video),
• murals painted on pizzeria walls of Marlon Brando,
• Danny Aiello,
• Conrad Murray’s trial,
• drunk Michael Jackson recording,
• Marquis Who’s Who in America books,
• Amazon Kindle Fire tablet,
• our review of Curb Your Enthusiasm season 8,
• our review of the book Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, by Josh Levine,
• Larry David on the old ABC show Fridays,
• and the first Curb Your Enthusiam special.

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In this episode:

• our trip to Barcade in Jersey City, NJ (microbrew beers and 1970s-1980s classic video arcade games),
• Barcade running on 100% wind power,
• Rob’s dream about “Macho Man” Randy Savage,
• the 2011 ThunderCats cartoon show,
• Larry Kenney vs. Will Friedle as the voice of Lion-O,
• John Erwin as the voice of Prince Adam and He-Man,
• Greg’s movie review of The A-Team (2010),
• Paunch Stevenson Show celebrity encounters,
• Greg meeting Tom Wopat (Luke Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard),
• John Schneider and Tom Wopat on Smallville,
• Greg meeting Jeff Bridges (Barney Cousins from The Vanishing),
• celebrity deaths (Christopher Mayer from The Dukes of Hazzard and Bubba Smith),
• the 2011 season of Curb Your Enthusiasm finally taking place in NYC,
• our future children missing out on pop culture from the past,
• important pop culture getting lost in time (CHiPs, the Marx Brothers, The Little Rascals, Droopy, The Ant and the Aardvark, etc.),
• the upcoming Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood spin-off Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,
• Jonah Hill’s weight loss,
• Mike Masse’s music video for “Long Time” (acoustic Boston cover),
• the decline of music videos,
• Rob constantly hearing people whistle Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” in England,
• Rob’s 4D movie experience,
• and Tom Wopat’s music vs. Jeff Bridges’s music.

We also snapped some photos of Barcade Jersey City:
Flickr – Barcade, Jersey City, NJ 8/20/11

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In this episode:

• Our ideas for re-dubbing the latest Michael Bay Transformers movie,
• the Rupert Murdoch UK phone hacking scandal,
• undercover sleuth work by Hugh Grant,
• Norm MacDonald announcing the O.J. Simpson verdict on Saturday Night Live,
• cracking passwords using social engineering,
• the “Ralphige” real Michael Jackson prank call (link),
• a fifth child on the way for Kevin ‘K-Fed’ Federline,
• the arrest of former informercial star Don Lapre,
• Tony Little HoMedics Micropedic Sleep Pillows,
• Ted Danson to star on the next season of CSI,
• Barney Miller,
• return of Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• why the Golden Girls is still funny (video),
• US Marines asking Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake on dates,
• Rob’s failure to book Tami Erin, star of The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) on the show,
• emulating classic PC games using DOSBOX,
• downfall of modern gaming franchises and developers (Hitman, Max Payne, Project Gotham, LucasArts),
• Copyright Alert System,
• and a celebrity death (Roberts Blossom).

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• wrestling titles won by Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair,
• our movie review of The Expendables (2010) starring Sly Stallone,
• Jean-Claude Van Damme’s interview about turning down the part,
• Michael Bay’s dangerous stunts on set of Transformers 3,
• M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil (2010) trailer,
• Ryan Reynolds gets Buried (2010) trailer,
• Tron Legacy (2010) trailer starring Jeff Bridges,
• our movie review of Leap Year (2010) starring Amy Adams,
• our old movie review of Made of Honor (2008) starring Patrick Dempsey,
• our really old movie review of The Outsiders (1983) starring Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Leif Garrett, Tom Waits, and Diane Lane,
• William Shatner using the Paunch Stevenson “record an interview in your car” method,
• season 8 of Curb Your Enthusiasm shooting in New York City (teaser),
• our movie review of Cop Out (2010) starring Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis,
• LEGO website brickset.com,
• approaching the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System,
• the lost Paunch Stevenson video game podcast show,
• Frank Nora’s podcasting network The Overnightscape Underground,
• Creative Commons licensing,
• and Rob’s cat appears in a video game article.

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In this episode:

• Greg’s new Dell computer,
• sticking with Vista or upgrading to Windows 7,
• a Nintendo Entertainment System video game selling for $20,100 on eBay,
• our movie review of The Island (1980) starring Michael Caine,
• our movie review of Stay Hungry (1976) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jeff Bridges,
• our movie review of Safety Last! (1923) starring Harold Lloyd,
• James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) vs. M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender (2010),
• Happy Feet (2006),
• the upcoming Independence Day sequels,
• the season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• Bob Einstein’s voice,
• Leon Black (J. B. Smoove) pretending to be Jewish,
• Michael Richards making fun of his 2006 incident,
• Rosie O’Donnell,
• the Seinfeld reunion,
• and celebrity deaths (Ken Ober and Soupy Sales).

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In this episode:

• Black Friday,
• Regis Philbin’s hip surgery,
• Sammy Sosa turning white,
• Albert Belle chasing trick-or-treaters with a baseball bat,
• a funny web site suggested by listener Joe in KY: www.peopleofwalmart.com (disgusting back photo),
• Joe’s digital art web site,
• Steven Seagal’s upcoming TV show Lawman,
• Dennis Haskins on Twitter,
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar in the Off Broadway play The Understudy,
• Steven Tyler quitting Aerosmith,
• Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• Nicolas Cage going bankrupt,
• a new Vacation movie,
• Robin Williams,
• Chris Elliott on How I Met Your Mother,
• an Eliza Dushku update (Fox cancelling Dollhouse),
• the made-for-TV animated movie TMNT: Turtles Forever,
• Rob’s AT&T and iPhone 3G rant,
• Gus (1976) starring Don Knotts,
• and Oprah Winfrey’s new cable TV network.

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• Chris Elliott’s performance of “Rocket Man” on Late Night with David Letterman circa 1990,
• The Jay Leno Show on NBC,
• Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter,
• Norm Macdonald on Tom Green’s House Tonight singing We Didn’t Start The Fire,
• Rob’s comments being deleted from sugaryserials.com,
• our movie review of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) starring Laurence Olivier,
• our movie review of Extract (2009) starring Jason Bateman,
• our teachers being struck by lightning,
• Whiteout (2009) starring Kate Beckinsale,
• listener Esteban from Please Save Me Robots/Roboplastic Apocalypse posting comments,
• the upcoming movie Hancock 2 (2012) starring Will Smith,
• the new Star Tours ride based on the Star Wars prequels,
• celebrity deaths (Ted Kennedy and Patrick Swayze),
• guys throwing monster truck tires down the street,
• the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• the Seinfeld reunion,
• and a salesman getting stabbed by the sword he’s selling on the Shop at Home Network.

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In this episode:

• celebrity deaths (John Hughes and Walter Cronkite),
• Nate and Hayes (1983) starring Tommy Lee Jones,
• Curb Your Enthusiasm returning to HBO on 9/20/09,
• celebrity death updates (Billy Mays and Michael Jackson),
• Steven Seagal on Twitter,
• James Rolfe’s video reports from Comic-Con on spiketv.com,
• the upcoming movie Stan Helsing (2009) starring Leslie Nielsen,
• our movie review of Funny People (2009) starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen,
• people fighting with each other in the theater,
• our movie review of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) starring Channing Tatum and Sienna Miller,
• horrendous computer graphics and special effects,
• the Angry Video Game Nerd’s Konami Laserscope video,
• Sean Connery,
• the Baroness and Snake Eyes,
• the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero theme song,
• “The Touch” by Stan Bush,
• DrSmoov’s funny Transformers videos,
• Frank Welker’s Megatron and Fred Jones voices,
• the Scooby-Doo movies starring Freddie Prinze Jr.,
• What Ever Happened To? (Rachael Leigh Cook),
• and wondering what listener Esteban in FL is up to.

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The Paunch Stevenson Show trip to the Fun N Games arcade!

In this episode:

• driving through Newark, NJ, while listening to William Shatner’s music,
• a Larry David moment on the PATH,
• old handicapped drivers on the highway,
• the Curb Your Enthusiasm season finale,
• our Larry David and Jeff Garlin impersonations,
• our visit to the Fun N Games arcade at Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, before it shut down,
• the upcoming video game Ghostbusters III,
• Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre,
• children’s birthday parties at McDonald’s and Burger King,
• the Treasure Troll doll fad in the early 1990s,
• Elmo,
• Teddy Ruxpin,
• The Secret City Adventures starring Commander Mark,
• Shirt Tales and The Smurfs,
• the abundance of karate schools in Belleville, NJ,
• the Biography channel,
• Rickel Home Centers,
• Home Depot,
• stupid job interviewers,
• employment agencies,
• the current season of Saturday Night Live only lasting four episodes,
• and the Broadway stagehand strike.

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