Regis Philbin is on overload lately. First, he appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, dressed as Shrek. Next, there was news that ABC will bring back Who Wants to be a Millionaire this August for a two week run.
Episode 129: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
In this episode:
- different video file formats and YouTube,
- an Eliza Dushku contest on MySpace (video),
- people customizing their MySpace profiles to look stupid,
- The Celebrity Apprentice starring Tom Green and Scott Hamilton,
- the current state of TV,
- our review of Nobel Son (2007) starring Alan Rickman and Danny DeVito,
- Disney retracing its own animation (video 1, video 2),
- and Rob finding $200 in his bedroom.
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Disney Reuses Its Own Animation
“Disney only ever made one movie and they’ve been tracing it ever since.”
If you think Filmation’s technique of reusing stock footage in the 1980s was a bit excessive, this video demonstrates that Disney has been doing the same thing for decades. The difference is Filmation was producing daily cartoon shows for TV and Disney is producing big-budget theatrical films.
Episode 128: Sunday, April 5, 2009
In this episode:
- getting a picture with Ed Begley Jr. and Bill Nye at PSEG GreenFest 2009 in Somerset, NJ,
- ShamWow pitchman Vince Offer getting arrested for punching a prostitute (mugshot),
- the yelling commercial guy Billy Mays,
- interviewing Ted Danson and Ed Begley Jr. at PSEG Global Green Expo 2008,
- asking Bill Nye about Tesla electric cars,
- Muppet voices,
- every episode of the TV show Get a Life online,
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) starring Chevy Chase,
- The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) movie poster,
- Steven Seagal,
- Simone (2002) starring Al Pacino,
- Looker (1981) starring Albert Finney,
- renting VHS tapes in the early 1980s,
- digital hoarding and people pirating songs and movies they’ll never play,
- and 1980s cartoons.
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Mr. Bay, here’s another video that gets Transformers/CGI right!
As I’ve mentioned in episodes past, I am an avid motorsports fan, including the IndyCar series. The series will be shown for the first time on Comcast’s fledgling Versus network. Below is a promo from Versus for the coverage. It’s a short one done all in computer animation, where the cars transform into animals. Though this is not affiliated with Hasbro or Transformers at all. Yet another example though of the classic and proper way to animate a “Transformer.” Unlike the nonsense from Michael Bay.
