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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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:

• 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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Our episode 100 improvised comedy extravaganza!

In this episode:

• Paunch in Time (Moses and the Ten Commandments),
• the dueling Dr. Phils’ new album,
• a skit about the Paunch bad luck (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire part two),
• Louie Anderson’s new hit single,
• another physics experiment with the fake Julius Sumner Miller (pressure),
• What Ever Happened To? (Gwyneth Paltrow),
• and The Paunch Stevenson Show Presidential debate on Larry King Live featuring Bill Maher, Sean Connery, Christopher Walken, Bill Cosby, Dr. Phil, “The Macho Man” Randy Savage, Jesse “The Body” Ventura, Gary Busey, Stan Lee, Louie Anderson, Billy Connolly, and Larry the Cable Guy.

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In this episode:

• an Eliza Dushku update (Tru Calling and Nurses),
• Side Order of Life starring Jason Priestley,
• Beavis and Butt-Head,
• Vanilla Ice destroying an MTV studio in 1999,
• the constant barrage of lists on TV and in magazines,
• That’s My Bush! on Comedy Central,
• South Park,
• The Sopranos series finale,
• celebrity deaths (Tammy Faye Bakker, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com),
• What Ever Happened To? (Larry Wilcox),
• the upcoming movie CHiPs (2009) starring Wilmer Valderrama,
• the upcoming movie The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) starring Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell,
• Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ,
• www.simpsonizeme.com and www.simpsonsmovie.com,
• and Robot Chicken.

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In this episode:

• a Sean Connery update,
• the Die Hard series of movies starring Bruce Willis,
• the Apple iPhone launch,
• a Transformers cosplay video on YouTube.com,
• a five foot tall Devastator by Shane (www.kingbotz.com),
• useless Japanese robots,
• anticipation for Transformers opening July 3, 2007,
• a listener’s web site (pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com by Esteban),
• celebrity deaths (Charles Nelson Reilly, Don Herbert, and Liz Claiborne, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com),
• The Wizard (1989) starring Fred Savage and Christian Slater,
• The Vanishing (1993) starring Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland,
• What Ever Happened To? (Fred Savage and Ben Savage),
• and WWE wrestler Chris Benoit’s steroid-induced murders and suicide.

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In this episode:

• our movie review of Rocky Balboa (2006) starring Sylvester Stallone and Milo Ventimiglia,
• Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!,
• complicated sports video games,
• the Ghost Rider (2007) trailer,
• Nicholas Cage as Liberace,
• Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) starring Ivana Baquero and Sergi Lopez,
• musicians acting in movies,
• Steven Seagal starring in movies with rappers,
• Out for Justice (1991) starring Steven Seagal and William Forsythe,
• What Ever Happened To? (Joey Lawrence),
• Jerry Springer on Dancing with the Stars,
• the upcoming movie Under Siege 3: Space Station,
• Scarred City (1998) starring Stephen Baldwin and Tia Carrere,
• and Time Cube (www.timecube.com).

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The Paunch Stevenson Show 50th episode and one year anniversary special, recorded live with an audience!

In this episode:

• George W. Bush and outer space weapons,
• Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban,
• What Ever Happened To? (Lenny Kravitz),
• the upcoming movie Star Trek XI (2008) featuring Tom Cruise (www.trekweb.com),
• the new album by Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs (Under the Covers Vol. 1),
• sports team logos on coffins (www.eternalimage.net),
• Don Francis’s stolen tricycle,
• children’s body odor,
• the Eighth Wonder of the World,
• the 1969 Moon landing,
• S.E.P.P.O.,
• and, of course, Michael Jackson.

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In this episode:

• celebrity deaths (The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin and Bruno Kirby),
• What Ever Happened To? (the entire cast of Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Tami Erin from The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, and Aileen Quinn from Annie),
• Twenty Good Years starring Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow,
• Arrested Development season 3 on DVD,
• The Hogan Family,
• Stan Lee,
• and the official release date and price of the upcoming Nintendo Wii.

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In this episode:

• celebrity deaths (Paul Gleason and Aaron Spelling),
• What Ever Happened To? (Jason Priestley),
• a Jerry Lewis update,
• Louie Anderson’s surgery,
• Jaleel White’s rumored suicide,
• the Paunch bad luck (Lewis, Louie, etc.),
• trying to watch Tom Green’s new show,
• an Eliza Dushku update,
• and LoveFilm.com’s poll of the most irritating film characters (www.lovefilm.com).

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