Episode 130: Sunday, May 3, 2009

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 130

In this episode:

  • our trip to the Brooklyn Museum to see Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) starring Paul Reubens and Mark Holton,
  • The Pee-wee Herman Show live stage show in 1980,
  • Phil Hartman,
  • Peter Cullen narrating the new Coors Light commercial,
  • Frank Welker as the voice of Soundwave and Ravage in the upcoming movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009),
  • listener email from Esteban in South Dakota (http://pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com/),
  • the Snickers Nougabot Bar featuring Bumblebee,
  • the upcoming movie Dance Flick (2009) starring Damon Wayans Jr.,
  • our movie review of The Lion in Winter (1968) starring Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn,
  • our movie review of Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) starring Pat Boone,
  • Regis Philbin dressed up as Shrek on Late Show with David Letterman,
  • Rob winning a car phone in the sixth grade fundraiser,
  • the Digital Press video game store used in Capital One’s new credit card commercial,
  • Greg switching from Comcast to Verizon FiOS,
  • and DVD bitrates.

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Regis Overload!

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.

YouTube – Regis as Shrek on David Letterman

Episode 129: Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 129

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.

TodaysBigThing.com – Disney Reuses Its Own Animation

Episode 128: Sunday, April 5, 2009

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 128

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