Don’t forget: nominate your Lame Idiot of 2008!

In this episode:

• Mr. Belvedere theme song lyrics,
• Leon Redbone,
• celebrity deaths (Dave Dee, Patrick McGoohan, and Ricardo Montalban),
• Larry Hankin,
• The Tony Danza Show NBC sitcom,
• Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) starring Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone,
• the upcoming Comedy Central Roast of Larry the Cable Guy,
• My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) starring Jensen Ackles,
• Jenny Lewis,
• the upcoming movie Final Destination: Death Trip 3D (2009) starring Shantel VanSanten,
• the upcoming movie Tron 2.0 (2011) starring Garrett Hedlund and Jeff Bridges,
• the Scary Mary Poppins Recut Trailer on YouTube,
• different British accents (ex. Dick Van Dyke, CNN’s Richard Quest, Vinnie Jones, Hugh Grant, etc.),
• the origins of Italians with red hair,
• Gran Torino (2008) starring Clint Eastwood,
• the upcoming reality show Steven Seagal: Lawman on A&E,
• and the upcoming movie Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) starring Rhona Mitra.

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In this episode:

• watching Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) at the historic Loew’s Jersey Theater in Jersey City, NJ,
• our movie review and comparison to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008),
• Scott C. Clements’s thoughts about the Indiana Jones movies,
• William Shatner’s new TV show Shatner’s Raw Nerve on The Biography Channel,
• horrible Sylvester Stallone movies,
• The Christmas Shoes (2002) starring Rob Lowe and Kimberly Williams-Paisley,
• inflatable Christmas lawn decorations,
• Snowglobe (2007) starring Christina Milian,
• Tim Allen’s Christmas movies,
• Amish electric fireplaces,
• Roc starring Charles S. Dutton,
• David Fincher’s filmography,
• Heavy Metal (1981) starring John Candy and Eugene Levy,
• the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game,
• repairing dead hard drives,
• Dumb Tattoo Club,
• Tina Turner wearing a ridiculous outfit,
• and Sarah Palin’s 2009 calendar.

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In this episode:

• our review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008),
• its rewatchability,
• Harrison Ford’s age,
• Karen Allen,
• ridiculously picky fans,
• the use of computer graphics and humor,
• the alien at the end,
• the 1950s setting,
• Shia LaBeouf swinging from vines,
• women waiting in line to see Sex and the City (2008),
• the Star Wars prequels,
• directors reediting their movies,
• Hayden Christensen’s horrible acting,
• ideas for the next Indiana Jones movie,
• the upcoming movies Death Wish (2009) and Rambo V (2009) both starring Sylvester Stallone,
• wondering what Scott C. Clements thinks about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,
• Lauren’s review,
• summer movies she’s looking forward to (Sex and the City, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Tropic Thunder, The Dark Knight, Step Brothers, Hamlet 2, etc.),
• Charlotte Rae,
• and What Ever Happened To? (Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze, Jr.).

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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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We talk with special guest Jonald Reyes, director of the documentary film That Asian Thing (www.thatasianthing.com)!

In this episode:

• the documentary film That Asian Thing by Jonald Reyes (www.thatasianthing.com),
• Asian-American celebrities (George Takei, Tiger Woods, Lucy Liu, Bobby Lee, Dat Phan, Rex Navarrete, James Iha, etc.),
• Margaret Cho’s TV show All-American Girl,
• Celebrity Boxing,
• Pat Smear,
• the Nirvana: Unplugged In New York DVD,
• Super Bowl XLI,
• William Hung,
• Fisher Stevens playing an Indian character in Short Circuit (1986),
• the upcoming movie Rambo (2008) starring Sylvester Stallone,
• Timecode (2000) starring Salma Hayek,
• the Independent Film Channel’s version of Pulp Fiction (1994) starring John Travolta,
• Second City and Keegan Michael Key,
• Jonald’s parents,
• the Filipino delicacy balut,
• professional boxing,
• Belleville, NJ,
• My Chemical Romance,
• Belleville High School,
• Ronald McDonald,
• old typewriters,
• the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China,
• celebrity sightings (John Cusack and Amy Poehler),
• the New Monkees,
• and the purpose of joining the Boy Scouts of America.

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