In this episode:

• Family Guy episodes with Frank Welker playing Megatron,
• were the lack of color and overuse of generic characters money saving tricks by Sunbow after Transformers: The Movie?,
• the newly released Star Wars The Complete Saga on Blu Ray disc,
• extras (good description here), changes, “Han shoots first” debacle, and the history of Star Wars home video releases,
• Steven Spielberg’s impersonation of George Lucas,
• communicating as kids before the Internet and cell phone age,
• annoying kids who came to our doors unannounced and unwelcome,
• Leonard Nimoy almost eaten by a bear,
• another “Jesse Ventura Conspiracy” (who really designed Manhattan Island’s grid system?),
• Casey Jones (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) fan film, directed by Polaris Banks (starring Hilarion Banks as Casey and Robbie Rist as Michelangelo),
• and Eddy Grant’s Romancing The Stone movie theme song.

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• 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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• our giant movie review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) in 3D, starring Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley,
• the ridiculous length of the movie,
• the end of the shaky camera fad,
• a list of movies and TV shows Michael Bay ripped off (The Transformers, Superman, The Watchmen, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Jackie Chan’s Who Am I?),
• illogical Duracell battery pricing at Staples,
• our roll call of robots in the movie (Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, Sentinal Prime, Starscream, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, and dozens of unnamed robots),
• Sentinal Prime’s face modeled after Sean Connery,
• Bay’s horrendous computer animated version of John F. Kennedy,
• Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) constantly screaming and crying,
• Bay’s terrible Barack Obama impersonator,
• Sam spending an hour going on job interviews,
• Leonard Nimoy as the voice of Sentinal Prime and Galvatron,
• various plot holes,
• Optimus Prime actually wondering where his trailer went in the movie,
• robots who were killed in the movie (the unnamed Scottish Autobot, Ironhide, Megatron, Starscream, the unnamed Decepticon bird, etc.),
• our welcoming of the inevitable Transformers movie reboot,
• Transformers spitting,
• Michael Bay turning Optimus Prime into a ruthless murderer,
• Peter Cullen and Frank Welker’s voice acting,
• Shia LaBeouf’s recent acting career (Eagle Eye and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps),
• Bay’s constant use of slow motion,
• billions of dollars worth of damage in action movies with no consequences,
• hacking into objects,
• Bay’s ignorance of science,
• the lack of rules and continuity in Bay’s Transformers movies,
• What Ever Happened To? (Bugle Boy jeans, Z. Cavaricci genie pants, Zubaz, IOU sweatshirts, B.U.M. Equipment, etc.),
• Roseanne Barr’s reality show Roseanne’s Nuts on Lifetime,
• a Transformers: Dark of the Moon cameo by Scott Krinsky from Chuck,
• Bay’s completely wasted use of 3D,
• fans feeling obligated to watch bad movies,
• Glynn Turman appearing in Super 8 (2011) and Gremlins (1984),
• Sean Connery’s brother Neil Connery starring in bad movies: OK Connery (1967) and The Body Stealers (1969),
• celebrity deaths (Peter Falk and Sherwood Schwartz),
• Paul Reiser and The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 2,
• and a new stupid style (extremely short cutoff shorts with dangling pockets).

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• the Transformers: Prime computer animated series starring Peter Cullen and Frank Welker,
• Michael Bell in an episode of G.I. Joe: Renegades,
• Cobra’s battle cry,
• the upcoming video game Duke Nukem Forever,
• the ThunderCats computer animated movie trailer,
• Liam Neeson as the voice of Qui-Gon Jinn in the computer animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars,
• the upcoming movie Terminator 5 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger,
• the biggest Lame Idiot of 2010 (BP),
• the 2011 Razzie Awards for bad movies,
• our review of Black Swan (2010) starring Natalie Portman,
• our review of The Dilemma (2011) starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James,
• and the Emergency Broadcast System.

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• 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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• What Ever Happened To? (H. Ross Perot),
• the upcoming movie Yogi Bear (2010) starring Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake (video),
• the upcoming cartoon show Transformers: Prime starring Peter Cullen and Frank Welker (video),
• the upcoming cartoon show G.I. Joe: Renegades,
• Steve Carell leaving The Office,
• Extras starring Ricky Gervais,
• the razor blade scam,
• counterfeit money detection pens,
• celebrity deaths (George Steinbrenner and James Gammon),
• the Major League movies,
• our movie review of Whatever Works (2009) starring Larry David,
• our hatred of Woody Allen,
• The Jerky Boys,
• and Greg’s problem selling things on the Amazon Marketplace.

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• movies in the 1980s in which boys switched bodies with their fathers,
• The Kid from Brooklyn Mike Caracciolo (The Joker video, Superman video),
• “Macho Man” Randy Savage wrestling “Weird Al” Yankovic (video),
• Pee-wee Herman’s upcoming Broadway show,
• the Angry Video Game Nerd’s review of obscure video storage media,
• RCA’s Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED),
• John Logie Baird’s phonovision from 1927,
• Michael Bay firing Megan Fox from the upcoming movie Transformers 3 (2011),
• the upcoming Jaws movie starring Tracy Morgan,
• Three Men and a Bride (2012) starring Steve Guttenberg and Tom Selleck,
• director Guillermo del Toro quitting The Hobbit,
• the Lost exhibit in NYC (Our Pictures),
• our book report shortcuts in school,
• and Optimus Prime dying after one shot.

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• a roll call of our listeners,
• the New York Jets vs. the Indianapolis Colts,
• Jimmy the Greek,
• weird comments on our Steven Seagal Hall of Lame post,
• Steven Seagal vs. Jean-Claude Van Damme,
• Van Damme’s return to professional kickboxing,
• celebrity boxing (Dustin Diamond vs. Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Rodman vs. Dennis Haskins),
• the Japanese believing Sony products break on purpose,
• pieces of the white Apple Macbook cracking off,
• Rob’s switch from the iPhone 3G to a free Pantech Reveal,
• a video of Pee-wee Herman using the Apple iPad,
• a fan dub of the G1 Transformers episode Scramble City,
• Alan Alda as the voice of Bumblebee,
• a Frank Welker fan site,
• Michael Bay’s belief that superheroes don’t wear masks,
• Dr. Phil as the voice of Optimus Prime,
• and George Lucas re-releasing the Star Wars movies in 3D.

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• our movie review of Avatar (2009) in IMAX 3D,
• our movie review of It’s Complicated (2009) starring Alec Baldwin,
• the upcoming Mad Max movie Fury Road (2011) not starring Mel Gibson,
• the upcoming movie The Kung Fu Kid (2010) starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan,
• Barcade in Brooklyn,
• downloading and converting Flash videos with RealPlayer,
• creating an anaglyph (red and blue) 3D image in Photoshop,
• Steven Seagal’s TV show Lawman,
• the new TV show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura,
• the Montel Williams HealthMaster blender,
• our review of Shout! Factory’s The Transformers: 25th Anniversary Matrix of Leadership Edition DVD boxed set,
• 1980s Transformers G1 voice actors (Michael Bell, Frank Welker, Jack Angel, etc.),
• azrael723′s gigantic Transformers costumes,
• our review of Ghostbusters (1984) on Blu-ray,
• repurchasing music and movies,
• YouTube videos loading too slowly,
• the Lame Idiot of 2009,
• The Hangover (2009) starring Zach Galifianakis,
• an email from the fake George Harrison,
• and celebrity deaths (Brittany Murphy and George Michael).

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In this episode:

• the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Toy SuperPage,
• stupid Transformers and G.I. Joe comic book plots,
• the upcoming movie Machete (2010) starring Steven Seagal and Robert De Niro,
• Pulp Fiction (1994) starring John Travolta,
• Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino,
• our review of 21 (2008) starring Kevin Spacey,
• the upcoming movie The Expendables (2010) starring every action movie star ever,
• our review of Rambo (2008) starring Sylvester Stallone,
• our review of Iron Man (2008) starring Robert Downey Jr.,
• our review of Batman (1966) starring Adam West,
• upcoming movies (Fraggle Rock: The Movie, The Power of the Dark Crystal, and Underworld 4),
• The Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996),
• Bob Dylan getting arrested in NJ,
• our review of Year One (2009) starring Jack Black and Michael Cera,
• our review of 500 Days of Summer (2009) starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
• our review of Paper Heart (2009) starring Michael Cera,
• celebrity deaths (Gordon Waller and Les Paul),
• the insane trailer for The Jay Leno Show,
• Shout Factory’s Transformers: The Complete First Season DVD set on sale for $13,
• Darius Rucker,
• the American Film Institute’s list of the funniest movies of all time,
• and Regis Philbin hosting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for 11 episodes.

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