Sixth anniversary of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part II)!

In this episode:

• election lawn signs for Stallone and Hogan in Northern NJ,
• Conrad Murray trial verdict in death of Michael Jackson,
• more NJ pizzeria stereotypes,
• get rich quick (the classy pizzeria),
• celebrity death (Smokin’ Joe Frazier),
• What Ever Happened To? (Judge Mills Lane and Fairuza Balk),
• Adam Sandler cursing his female co-stars’ careers,
• Greg meets the legendary William Shatner,
• anecdotes from his new book Shatner Rules,
• the movie Incubus (1966) spoken entirely in Esperanto,
• In Living Color returning to Fox in 2012,
• another celebrity death (Heavy D),
• Johnny English Reborn (2011) starring Rowan Atkinson,
• Rob’s fundamental categories of video games (fun, strategy, and wonder),
• why can’t a one-person bathroom be unisex?,
• the Paunch luck (we missed a chance to meet Stan Lee),
• cheap 1980s Halloween costumes for children (Voltron, E.T., etc.),
• super expensive price for Mark Hamill’s autograph or photo,
• Greg meets the star of Hercules (Kevin Sorbo),
• Greg meets Eliza Dushku at last!,
• a motion ride using George Lucas’ Red Tails,
• movie cars (1966 Batmobile, 1989 Batmobile, 1985 Back to the Future DeLorean),
• Michael J. Fox impersonator,
• Carroll Spinney, original voice and puppeteer of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch,
• New York Comic Con chaos and costumes,
• KRE-O Transformers,
• R2D2Builder.com R2-D2 working models,
• tracking down a Quiznos restaurant,
• Michael Jackson’s stoned singing,
• and the return of the Hobo!

Flickr Album – New York Comic Con, NYC 10/16/11

Flickr Album – William Shatner book signing, NYC 10/6/11

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In this episode:

• Rob’s upgrade to Windows 7,
• April Fools’ Day gag involving the Bio Force Ape prototype NES game,
• homebrew Bio Force Ape programmer foiled,
• Sega developed the Microsoft Xbox?,
• the video game prototype scene,
• the Angry Video Game Nerd’s future,
• movies that kill franchises (The Jerky Boys: The Movie, Big Top Pee-wee, etc.),
• Pee-wee Herman on Saturday Night Live (video),
• the upcoming third Bill and Ted movie starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter,
• Nicolas Cage arrested in New Orleans while busting into houses and screaming in the street,
• the upcoming cartoon series The Governator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger,
• the Fake Stan Lee meets the Real Stan Lee,
• and Ted Danson’s lack of podium microphone skills.

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In this episode:

• celebrity deaths (Jack LaLanne),
• WWF wrestler Dino Bravo,
• Rob’s new solo podcast The Goodrob13 Music Show,
• walking around NYC talking into a sock,
• Frank Nora’s podcast network The Overnightscape Underground,
• the Overnightscape Central podcast,
• Sean Connery refusing to participate in the 50th anniversary of James Bond,
• Zardoz (1974) starring Sean Connery,
• Will Smith’s daughter Willow Smith starring in an upcoming remake of Annie,
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,
• Ashton Kutcher’s new TV show,
• the lack of talent in Hollywood today,
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012) starring Anne Hathaway as Catwoman,
• more of Stan Lee’s Twitter tweets,
• The Celebrity Apprentice season 4 starring Gary Busey and La Toya Jackson,
• Regis Philbin retiring from Live with Regis and Kelly in November 2011,
• IBM’s computer Watson competing against humans on Jeopardy!,
• Eliza Dushku updates (The Big Bang Theory, her broken finger, and her car being towed),
• the return of Bagels Plus in Belleville, NJ,
• drawing posters about Belleville in seventh grade,
• Chicken Galore,
• our nasty psychotic seventh grade math teacher (and part-time clown),
• the vice principal getting punched out,
• our typing teacher playing The Howard Stern Show and selling watches in class,
• his son’s collection of every G1 Transformer in the box,
• and a different classmate’s collection.

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Please leave a comment with your choice for Lame Idiot of 2010!!!

In this episode:

• Rob dreams of a sequel to Dutch starring Ed O’Neill,
• credit card schemes and credit scores,
• actor and comedian Tom Wilson’s funny “The Question Song,”
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) starring Dick Van Dyke,
• celebrity deaths (Irwin Kirshner, Dino De Laurentiis, Barbara Billingsley, Kevin McCarthy, and Leslie Nielsen),
• remembering the good and bad movies of Leslie Nielsen,
• Whatever Happened To? (Harry Anderson),
• the retirement (finally) of Larry King,
• Stan Lee rambling on and on with Twitter tweets,
• our culinary review of burger joints (Five Guys, Smash Burger, Elevation Burger),
• our deli review of sandwich shops (Quiznos, Subway, Blimpie),
• factory farming,
• new age and expensive “breadshops” (Panera Bread, Atlanta Bread Co., Saladworks),
• the fall of Howard Stern,
• Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon (2011) trailer,
• nominees for Lame Idiot of the Year,
• and new Mike Massé cover songs: “Africa” by Toto, “In the Name of Love” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” by U2, and “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon.

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In this episode:

• the Clapper,
• touch-sensitive lamps,
• plasma globes and crackle tubes,
• Dennis Haskins aging very quickly,
• Greg meeting Attack of the Show! host Olivia Munn,
• Olivia Munn’s book Suck It, Wonder Woman: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek,
• an annoying guy in the book signing line at Borders,
• Verizon FiOS finally available in Jersey City, NJ,
• Olivia Munn asking Greg about The Paunch Stevenson Show,
• The Good Earth and our 11th grade English teacher,
• how to spot an a-hole,
• Hostess fruit pies,
• Greg entering Olivia Munn’s video contest,
• UHF 2,
• an Eliza Dushku update,
• and the Star Wars TV show.

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In this episode:

• Esteban’s new podcast Roboplastic Podcastalypse,
• Shogun Warriors and Godzilla,
• Rob’s TV and cable box breaking,
• stupid Comcast customer service,
• HDMI cable prices,
• premium movie channels,
• poorly dubbed voices in movies,
• Verizon FiOS TV Media Manager and Widgets,
• HP’s terrible 2.4 GHz wireless keyboard and mouse,
• crazy computer keyboard prices,
• the video game short film PIXELS by Patrick Jean,
• Air Raid for the Atari 2600 selling for $31,600 on eBay (article),
• the upcoming live action movie The Smurfs (2011),
• various movie sequels, prequels, and remakes (Iron Man 2, Alien, Predator, Scream 4, Captain America, etc.),
• the Syfy channel showing professional wrestling,
• and the psychotic behavior of collectors.

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In this episode:

• another physics experiment with the fake Julius Sumner Miller (nuclear fusion using lasers),
• Rob getting the complete series of Get a Life on DVD,
• Family Matters season one coming to DVD in June 2010,
• celebrity deaths (Corey Haim, Peter Graves, and Robert Culp),
• Jon Voight as Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible (1996),
• Esteban and Billy Mitchell,
• more weird comments on our Steven Seagal Hall of Lame post,
• Nicolas Cage,
• the new 15-minute National Lampoon’s Vacation short film starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo,
• Crash Course In Science performing “Cakes in the Home” on The Uncle Floyd Show circa 1980 (video),
• Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy (Backstage with Bob Dylan),
• Unseen64′s screenshots and videos from the unreleased video game GoldenEye 007 Remake (Xbox Live Arcade),
• Hulk Hogan imitating “Macho Man” Randy Savage on TNA Wrestling,
• Greg talking to Jesse Ventura at Barnes and Noble in Clifton, NJ,
• Abraham Lincoln and John Lennon conspiracy theories,
• Predator vs. Dick Cheney,
• Eliza Dushku selling clothes and car tires on eBay,
• our review of Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) starring John Cusack and Craig Robinson,
• our review of On the Waterfront (1954) starring Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint,
• Marlon Brando’s filmography,
• the upcoming movie MacGruber (2010) starring Will Forte and Val Kilmer,
• the best movies from 1960-1989,
• and the exclusive new version of “We Are the World” featuring Michael Jackson, Larry King, Louie Anderson, Sean Connery, Stan Lee, Dr. Phil, Bill Cosby, Sylvester Stallone, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Al Gore, Billy Connolly, Don Knots, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tom Green, Gary Busey, Jeff Bridges, Hulk Hogan, Marlon Brando, and Steven Seagal.

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In this episode:

• our trip to Late Show with David Letterman,
• Twilight (2008) starring Kristen Stewart,
• the Neil Diamond tribute band Super Diamond,
• JCVD (2008) starring Jean-Claude Van Damme,
• our review of Quantum of Solace (2008) starring Daniel Craig,
• our review of every James Bond movie ever made,
• the upcoming movie Valkyrie (2008) starring Tom Cruise,
• the trailer for the upcoming movie Star Trek (2009) starring Chris Pine,
• the upcoming movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) starring Shia LaBeouf,
• characters in movies not watching the road while driving,
• Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew starring Jeff Conaway and Gary Busey,
• the yelling commercial guy Billy Mays,
• NBC canceling My Own Worst Enemy starring Christian Slater,
• Worst Week starring Kyle Bornheimer,
• Stan Lee’s upcoming gay superhero show on Showtime,
• parents in Nebraska leaving their teenage children at hospitals,
• and another lawsuit against Michael Jackson.

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(photo by Alan Light)

Stan Lee, former president of Marvel Comics, co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, and several other comic book characters.

In 1998, he started Stan Lee Media, a new internet-based production and marketing studio, which grew to 165 people and went public. He produced the animated web series The 7th Portal and voiced the characters Izayus, The Drifter, and The Accuser.

Near the end of 2000, investigators discovered illegal stock manipulation and in February 2001, Stan Lee Media filed for bankruptcy. Stan Lee’s lawyer Peter Paul fled to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Excelsior!

In 2003, Lee created the animated series Stripperella for Spike TV, which was cancelled after thirteen episodes. In 2004, he announced plans to collaborate with Hugh Hefner on a superhero cartoon featuring Playboy Playmates and announced another superhero show that would feature Ringo Starr as the lead character. ‘Natch!

On July 27, 2006, Who Wants to Be a Superhero? starring Stan Lee debuted on the Sci Fi Channel. At the July 2007 Comic-Con International, Hasbro introduced a Stan Lee action figure. ‘Nuff said!

Our summer movie rundown!

In this episode:

• comments by Manny the Mailman in NJ and Brian in NJ,
• a picture of the dueling Dr. Phils,
• The Incredible Hulk (2008) starring Edward Norton,
• Stan Lee,
• another stupid style (giant headphones in public),
• boom boxes,
• D batteries,
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) starring Jason Segel,
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) starring Harrison Ford,
• Iron Man (2008) starring Robert Downey Jr.,
• Speed Racer (2008) starring Emile Hirsch,
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) starring Ben Barnes,
• Postal (2007) directed by Uwe Boll,
• Uwe Boll vs. Michael Bay,
• Get Smart (2008) starring Steve Carell,
• The Love Guru (2008) starring Mike Myers,
• WALL-E (2008) starring Fred Willard and Jeff Garlin,
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) starring Ron Perlman,
• Meet Dave (2008) starring Eddie Murphy,
• Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (2008) starring Brendan Fraser,
• The Dark Knight (2008) starring Christian Bale,
• Space Chimps (2008) starring Andy Samberg,
• The Longshots (2008) directed by Fred Durst,
• Step Brothers (2008) starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly,
• Land of the Lost (2009) starring Will Ferrell,
• The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson,
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) starring Samuel L. Jackson,
• and Tropic Thunder (2008) starring Ben Stiller.

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