In this episode:

• our movie review of The General (1927) starring Buster Keaton,
• Shout! Factory’s Transformers and G.I. Joe DVD boxed sets,
• problems with Rhino’s Transformers DVD boxed sets,
• the quality of cartoon writing in the 1980s vs. today,
• The World of David the Gnome,
• the USA Cartoon Express,
• Mr. Wilson played by two different actors in Dennis the Menace,
• TV channels that show old sitcoms (AmericanLife TV Network, FamilyNet, etc.),
• The Dark Knight 1960s version,
• the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) public access TV station in NYC (Invasion Earth hosted by Harvey Wiesenberg, Star Crash, Wild Record Collection, etc.),
• and The Uncle Floyd Show (www.unclefloyd.com).

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In this episode:

• the end of the Writers Guild of America strike,
• technical difficulties while recording last week,
• an old VCR with instructions on a VHS tape,
• our video tour of the Fun N Games arcade a week before it shut down,
• new listeners (Manny the Mailman and Neal from www.intoyourhead.com),
• new comments by Esteban (Iron Man, War Machine, and stupid sizes of Star Wars toys),
• the upcoming movie G.I. Joe (2009) starring Dennis Quaid and Marlon Wayans,
• The 7th Portal and Stan Lee’s bankruptcy in 2001,
• Ringo Starr starring in Stan Lee’s new superhero show,
• the most useless object a Transformer could change into,
• celebrity deaths (Roy Scheider),
• celebrities’ real names,
• and Dirty Work (1998) starring Norm MacDonald, Artie Lange, and Jack Warden.

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We’re back!

In this episode:

• bidding on old video games on eBay.com,
• the San Francisco Rush series,
• Sega in the 1990s (the Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, etc.),
• the pronunciation of Uranus,
• giant camcorders in the 1980s,
• tiny new digital camcorders,
• longer episodes of The Paunch Stevenson Show,
• the unreliability of 5.25″ floppy disks,
• old video game controllers with telephone keypads on them,
• the Coleco Telstar Arcade from 1977,
• light guns (the NES Zapper, Wii Zapper, SNES Super Scope, and Genesis Menacer),
• the Sega Activator,
• deceptive toy commercials,
• pointless toys (Shrinky Dinks, Lite-Brite, wrestling figures, etc.),
• creative toys (the Etch A Sketch Animator and the Fisher-Price PXL-2000),
• live action role-playing (G.I. Joe, The Transformers, etc.),
• our review of Incredible Change-Bots by Jeffrey Brown (2007),
• shopworn books at Barnes & Noble,
• The Dark Knight (2008) trailer,
• the Rambo (2008) trailer,
• Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007),
• the upcoming movie Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (2009),
• Still Crazy (1998) starring Billy Connolly and Bill Nighy,
• Read-Along Adventures (www.readalongadventures.com),
• the Lame Idiot of 2007 (Michael Bay),
• and director Uwe Boll.

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In this episode:

• Carroll Shelby,
• Bill Cosby’s Super Snake custom car and Tony Maxey’s death,
• a new X-Files movie,
• the upcoming movie Star Trek (2008),
• various actors we’d prefer as the voice of Megatron in the upcoming movie Transformers (2007),
• the upcoming movie Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Movie (2009),
• Teen Wolf (1985) starring Michael J. Fox and Teen Wolf Too (1987) starring Jason Bateman,
• Steve Jobs buying Pixar from George Lucas in 1986,
• live-action G.I. Joe fan movies (Special Missions and Battle for the Serpent Stone),
• insane celebrities,
• the fall of Britney Spears,
• and a Kevin Federline update.

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In this episode:

• The Old Jingle of the Episode (Filmation’s Ghostbusters theme song),
• the Ghostbusters DVD boxed set,
• Lou Scheimer,
• Rankin/Bass Productions,
• Podlinez (www.podlinez.com),
• “Melmac Girls” by Alf (1988 Burger King cardboard record),
• “McDonald’s Menu Song” (1988 McDonald’s flexi disc),
• strange cartoon show plots (The Transformers, G.I. Joe, etc.),
• Rip Torn’s drunk driving arrest in NY,
• Dr. Phil and Bumfights producer Ty Beeson (Video Link),
• and the judge TV show fad.

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