Geek Shock

Geek Shock 83 - Die In A Pie

What if a natural 20 is a tale you spin at the inn? What if all you know is 1's but you don't know binary? What if the TPK (Total Party Kill) is constantly your fault? What if your dice hate you? Then you must cleanse them. But how? We explore this very important ponderance as well as other topics like "No rush to blame shift", Wondering Woman, Steam-punk Palin, Bane rises, Wizard lock, Jeff hates apple...still, Pac-toon, Smith gets daring, Bus stop represent, lion tacos, Comics Code Authority no more, big jalapenos, Avatar for UNICEF, Money Machine, Evil Deader, Black Panther: the documentary(?), poor Borders and a full list of the 1954 Comics Code Authority rules. So bake your die in a pie. It's Geek Shock

Geek Shock 82 - Bukkacracy.gov

The name is Torgo....Master Torgo (if you're nasty) and I have a license to fill your ears with geeky goodness. Me and my fellow agents, Dr. Vlarg, 80's Jeff, Kommander K, and Daverator go deep undercover as we expose the sordid underbelly of the Spiderman Musical, whiskey in a can, burrowing nerds, Pac-Man Apprentice, Woolly Mammoths, computer history, space jockeys no more, Aronofsky's Batman comic, deadbox, Dead-Fringe, Community goes table-top, Bond 23, e. coli: the jet fuel, Caligula resurfaces, and web shooters. Big List: Freaky Wikipedia deletions. We may never come back from this mission, especially when agent 00-fatty eats all the choco-tacos.

Geek Shock 81 - Peter Pachter vs Justin Beaver

Look Out! Run! The Government is after our internets! Kommander K, Just Michael (the Just), and Deb join the boys in trying to make sense of it all. But what will make them break first? Godzilla? Archie? Peter Pachter? Join the crew as geekdom assaults them on all sides. One controller, One game? Blunder Woman? Zionist Griffin Vultures? Is anyone safe anymore? Put down those Mega Millions numbers and tune in to find out. Oh, Phoenix Jones! Where are you when we need you? Probably out beating Barry's pinball score, I reckon.

Geek Shock 80 - Ugly Couch Show: THE GAME!!

While Barry sulks over losing his Pinball FX crown to Torgo, 80's Jeff, Torgo, Kommander K, and Just Michael (The Just) discuss the geek news of the week. And that news gets all OVER the place like Barry losing his Pinball FX crown, Boba City Cafe in Las Vegas, Gameboy grave-robbers, Frogger (don't try this at home kids), carpel tunnel for charity, unified chargers, Harmonix for a song (or 4 song packs), 10 year olds that are better than you, trolling DC once again 'official', Stan's Star, Being John Malkavitch (or else), two losses, Marvel's loss/gain, Barry loses Pinball FX crown, NASA cuts the crap, Jack returns to D, Clive returns to hell, Schlafly returns to crazytown. It's everywhere. The maid doesn't come till Thursday. Game over, man. Game over! Especially if your name is Dr. Vlarg, ex-pinball king.

Geek Shock 79 - Frakin' Year End Edition 2010

Another great year come and gone.  But what was your favorite parts?  See that comments button up there?  Hit that and tell us your favorite/worst parts of geekdom in 2010.  If you tell us yours, we'll tell you ours.  Well, we were gonna tell you ours anyway.  Plus all the News You Don't Give a SH*t About and Week In Geek news you have come to love.  And we've come to love you right back.  So tap in AND COME GET YOUR LOVIN'!!

Geek Shock 78 - Barry Gets Sad (Merry Christmas!!)

In this episode, Torgo slowly breaks Barry's will to live, Jeff slowly tells the story to nowhere, and Kommander K quickly sums up Paul's comedy in one sentence. Plus Santa drops off a sack of geek that just might make you cry. With stories to test your Christmas mettle such as Spiderman: Dark, The Madden Movie, Farmville for Dummies (no, really), GodStoria, Brit vs. Porn, Giger's return, Sexnect, 2001+17, The closing of the Gate, Alias AKA Barry Robb, SYFY Universal, Dreammachine, power bill vs. Xbox, and more. Pour a double nog for this one, you're gonna need it...

Geek Shock 77 - A Klingon Carol

We warriors of the couch would be honored if you would join us in our revelry in trying to disseminate geek culture from pop culture as we talk about the ease of Comic-Con, Grand Theft Washington, Fire(re)starter, Chinese Na'vi weddings, robot jeopardy, World of Own You, Blizzard leaks, One Piece of Nami's Fruit, an Iron Man without a captain, new Powers, Del Toro's inSANE, only Clooney can prevent jihad, and the Elder Scrolls just got elder-er. All this and crappy, independent Xbox live games on this week's show. So grab your leg of Targ and sing praises to the Christmas Kahless. Iiiiiiit's SHOWTIME!

Geek Shock 76 - JesusCraft

In the olden days they would melt the golden calf and pour it down the heathen's throat and that's what we do on this week's Shock.  Not really.  We talk geek news.  Awesomely.  This weeks show goes into biblical detail about JesusCraft, Whed-no, putting your ashes in your favorite president, why AT&T officially blows, R18+, dirty vuvuzelas, the glory of Baba Yetu, Korean curfew, canned unicorn meat, super PS3, Alien eventually, one-face, Arsenic and old lake, and the top 9 failures of this generation of video game consoles.  So grab a glass of molten gold.  It's time to get Geek Shocked.

Geek Shock 75 - Turn Off The Goram Dark, Already!

It's a sad day in geekdom as we mourn the loss of two Hollywood greats, plus some woman in Spain is gonna make us all rent the sun. But OnLive is is coming out we've all been anxiously awaiting it, right? ...right? Before a Duran gets your solar money we stuff you mind full of nerd info like Axl's late to the party (again), another Buffy burp, the destruction of Drake, NASA secrets, Kim Jong Fat, Picasso in the garage, sexy Quiddich, Kirby vs. Marvel, Hordes of ratings, the death of the 5 year console cycle, and ending with the Big List: All the things that went wrong at the SPIDERMAN: Turn Off The Dark preview.

Geek Shock 74 - Huzzahzel Tov

Deb and Kommander K ignore their soggy slice of pizza to join us in our wonderful discussions on all the geeky things that happened in this weeks news such as Jossless Buffy, interest-less Underworld, demonic USB, Gigantic MMO, life saving Tetris, modern 911 lol, scary senate bills, a full size Endeavor, mass cheating, lead poisoning (a gift that keeps on giving), Trek online, Batman, Spider-Man, and moremoremore.  So cry Huzzah and let slip the hinteles of war!

Geek Shock 73 - It's On Like Donkey $#&@

Deb and Kommander K join us because something is rotten in the state of Brick & Mortar.   But, hey good things happened too, right?  Like uber expensive collectables.  That's cool, right?  Unless you're buying.  Then I guess it kinda sucks.  Then there's major, awesome names heading up comic properties.  That's always fine.  Like when Ang Lee directed the Hulk....  um.... and let's not forget the new lizard clones, wizard fatigue, and the fall of rhythm games.  All that and a solid gold cartridge kitchen sink in this week's Geek ShOcK!

Geek Shock 72 - The Boys Return

We hope you enjoyed the special edition podcasts while we are gone. But time for being special is OVER. Geek Shock is back in this newsworthy week as we attempt to turn of our dark to bring you into the light. Find out about a lack of Dune, and increase of Tiki, personal 3D (cheap!), the dead crush the competition, beluga cocoa, urine phones, Elijah Tron, net neutrality who(?), Depp in the Shadows, Marvel TV, Marvel Broadway, Marvel Casting, and Comic-Con. Big list: 6 Comic Book Crossovers You Won't Believe Actually Happened from cracked.com

Geekshock Special #2: WATCH

It's GeekShock Special #2: WHAT TO WATCH!  Master Torgo, 80's Jeff, Dr. Vlarg, Deeb and Commander K talk about what poisoned their impressionable young eyes as children and made them the movie and TV-viewing nerds they are today.  Do those tired old shows stand the test of time?  Do those crusty old reels of celluloid even stand a chance against today's ultra-violent hyper-sexual fare?  Let's find out.

Geek Shock Special #1: GAMES

It's a GeekShock Special, the first of many!  Master Torgo, 80's Jeff, Dr. Vlarg, Deeb and Commander K talk all about the Games (video games, role-playing games and otherwise) that made them the geeks they are today, and how those games stand up to today's standards.

Geek Shock 71 - Moorcock and Dick

We at the Ugly Couch Show Network believe that we would be shirking our nerdly duties if we didn't suggest a healthy serving of Moorcock and Dick for your nerdly intake. Go find some now. While you are searching, we'll tell you about such wondrous things as Bevis & Butthhead 3D, Army of Darkness: The Ride, The top American Authors as voted by General Public, political hackings, and so much more. Have you found any Dick yet? I guess you'll just have to settle for Moorcock, then. 

Geek Shock 70 - I've Got NUMLOCK!

Oh, it's horrible. So many ugly things happened in the world of Geekdom. Our News You Don't Give a S*#t about section is full, FULL! But we won't let it get our spirits down once you get us off the street. Because, when life gives you lemons, you chuck 'em at other people and that's what you get in this week's Geek Shock; Lemons with NUMLOCK! Enjoy. Warning, NUMLOCK is contagious. If you encounter anyone with NUMLOCK contact your local health provider for immediate sterilization. Not kidding. NUMLOCK is serious.

Geek Shock 69 - Two Points for a Monkey

Geek Shock.  It's like no other gadget that you've ever seen.  Cause it's audio!  Today's team takes you on a wondrous journey to worlds where toys turn on their owners, people can't read their cue cards, Michael Jackson gets his own (virtual) planet, Stewart/Colbert get their own rallies, big brother gets bigger, easy date escape, we get an ambassador to space, Flash gets served with a nice Chianti, Black Widow goes solo, Tarantino (and all of us) lose, we go Back to the Theater, and Super Hero costumes feel GREAT!  So put something in it and... well... a treat comes dancing out.

Geek Shock 68 - Ten Pound Pizza

OMG! Did you hear about the time that 80's Jeff and his friend tried to eat a ten pound pizza in 45 minutes? Well, you will on this week's Geek Shock. Besides 80's gastrointestinal issues, you will also learn how not to do cut scenes, how to smell like a book, How to improve the sales of your waning Archie brand, How to screw the people who already overpaid for your processor, how to get Alyssa Milano to be your friend (for 90 days), How DC comics got their movie groove back, How to diversify your zoo, how to waste even more time on WOW, How to embrace your knighthood, How to reason with the Supreme Court, When to buy your used games (answer: quickly, before you can't anymore), how to buy a Stargate, How to spin your Deadpool, and when to say goodbye to an old friend. That's a lotta learnin' and that's just the kind of resume-pumping information you get on this week's GEEK SHOCK.

Geek Shock 67 - Thanos Beat Me (The Ride!)

Welcome back to Geek Shock where we celebrate everything geek, even your creepy cousin who always wears his iPod Shuffle while pumping endless quarters into the old Amidar arcade machine at  Andy's Pizza (downtown location). This week we talk about Pedobear invading SoCal, $178 cheese sandwich, Resident Evil: Afterlife: Aftershocks, Another mastermind pulls an EvE Online, Marvel Anime, Facestar, the Digital Comics Museum, cockroaches, Dead Set comes to America, Dark Tower triumphant, True Lies some more, His name is still Bruce, Free Bree, video games in the Supreme Court, Current Biology, furries, horrible Disney ride ideas, robots in jail, and pumping your own wine. We finish it off with some Dragon*Con missed connections that are not to be missed. So, belly up to the wine pump, it's time for a Geek Shock.

Geek Shock 66 - Robot In Jail

Geek Shock is back firing on all cylinders...even if those cylinders are stting in jail...telling the wrong time.  Topics this week include the Leisure Publishing implosion, mafia (and journalism) problems of Atwater California, Hack is Wack, Journey to the Center of the Island, not a Night's Devil, Duke(?), Dream invades TV, nerd poker, Fcc f's U, Battlestar Hogwarts, respect given to the Dead, Molder Kombat, how to be Superior, we lost another funny guy, BAR2D2, Gears of Charity, did you feel that breeze, and Kinect ho-hum.  That and new special guest (god help us).  Big List: 15 new things we learned about Rockband 3 from PAX. Oh, and yes Deb, Barry ate a salad for dinner.

Geek Shock 65 - Zoombies

Hey!  Where did Couchcast go?  Don't fret, buckaroo.  It's right here.  We've given ourselves a new name like the one you give your significant other in your tenderest of moments.  But it's the same sweet smelling geekery, so grab your smelling salts...We're going deep.  Today we discuss improv vs. Killer Instinct, Awesomeness Reminders, Snakes and Lattes, Wii intimacy, Zomb1es everywhere, 3D without annoyance, Xbox Live with annoyance, better controllers for the colorblind, Spiderpaul, saving throw vs Lost Marathon, Maryland State Senator Nancy King is a tool and we'll tell you why, Commodore and a whole lot more, THQ hates you, best headache stories ever, and Lucas/Disney performs fanfic.  Big List: 7 scientific reasons a zombie outbreak would fail. So hide your Ding Dongs and prepare for a GEEK SHOCK!

Couchcast 64 - A Treat Comes Dancing Out

Paul dives deep into his past to recount the great Game Stop Hold-up of 2005 and the great sphincter Hold-in of 2010. But that's not all. It can't be all! We also bring you the Lineage of Craig Smallwood, Harry Popper, Doggy Poo Story - The Musical, Braga's bragging, Voyager rants, Everything's blog unfriendly in Philadelphia, Futurama's theorem, China's not getting anywhere fast, a Portal to higher education, Locke & Key on teevee, and a vote for Blinky. Big List(s): X-Men: First Class revelations, Paul Scheer's rules for watching Piranha 3D, and the entire play-list for Rockband 3 So pick up that feather and get yourself a treat... It's Couchcast time!

Couchcast 62 - Gungan Doody Poopa

Yeah, we saw Scott Pilgrim and we talk about it miraculously spoiler free.  From there it all goes downhill as we discuss Ray Bradberry and J.D. Salinger, stupid e-mail addys, a Silenter Hill, Star-Ray, a Hamill-less Luke, Klingon opera, Topless Raeliens, the end of a Legacy, X-Platt, Freakin' awesome-enomics, Irrational's Infinite, and phone boy.  Also, prepare to gag (not only from the scatological humor) for the Big List is 25 video game movies in development.  I am filled with loathsome.

Couchcast 62- You Know The Punisher !?!

Barry returns all scotchified for this look back at the the news that us nerds love.  It's been a bustling week and we've got the podcast to prove it.  This week we discuss Pop-Tarts, Digitized Dance, the raving-idiot rorschach test, the alphabet misunderstood by a bird, a Bakula-less Leap, V-moms, less Star Tube, more Star Cash, a 3 ring binder, all the damn capes, the Gamerator, Scott's Nemesis, paying to be good at games, 404, Donkey Mitchell, poo bug, and taking care of your feet.  Big list: pop culture's 10 most evil trees. Go get that dog away from your toe and tune in to this week's couchcast!

Couchcast 61 - Smurfberry Vomit

What a rough week.  Barry is down and out after eating some bad sausage, so we make due without him.  A week after Comic-Con and the news well runs dry.  The good news anyway.  But the S#%t news well runs freely and we're all gonna get a big gulp.  This week's topics include Creation Star Trek Convention jerkitude, Transformers the MMO hates you and western civilization, The Outer Limits of MGM, a trip down memory lane for midwestern dark rides, liberal hate costs $40 a year, We Can Remember It For You Again (and more modernish), Panshake, Chocoball sets the record, Superman saves a family - FOR REAL, At The Mountains of Cameron, Johnny Five is a target, Lawyer Thing, (record) - 30 = fraud, a holiday for Civilization, those dark rides we talked about may have never existed, Wii kills corporations, and Bungie rage-kills rage-quitters.  Big List: Taglines to put you off a film.

CouchCast 60 - Comic-con in your LaserFace!

Comic-con is over for another year, but you can re-live the magic through this brand-spankalicious Couchcast. If you missed it, we take you on the grand tour of the Grand Con in all of it's glory with such highlights as: Pen-face costumes, hot girls look at 80's Jeff Twice(!), Guido the RPG, new Battleship crew, all Avengers assembled, geeks smell the glove, it turns out the Goonies ARE good enuff, getting hit by space rocks, Hamilton goes with Chuck (if she wants to live), more grim grinning ghosts, Keith Urban as Judge Dredd, Vader's Bitchin' Camaro, Nerds make saving throw vs. Phelps, H.G. Wells hates sci-fi, Brad Pitt vs. zombies, Year One kills Ghostbusters 3, purp-ray, and Battlestar minis. Plus the greatest list of all time.... 10 Minor Star Wars Characters with Completely Unnecessary Backstories.

Couchcast 59 - Stupid Gets A Kick

Created from a lab discovered in a basement under our villa, this week's Couchcast gives a 1,2,5 punch to the solar-powered plexus.  It all starts off with the horrible TV shows we still wanna see on DVD.  We only think they're great because we haven't seen them in years.  From there we go on to talk about Comic-Con, Batman Engrish, the madness of King Lee, The madness of fool Phelps, Y the last bathhouse, 8 minutes(!), Darth Vader gets kicked out of the 501st, Bruce Banner gets kicked out of the Hulk, Pekar gets kicked out of life, Tron cares about it's script, Robocop vs. Dexter, D23's film festival,  James Cameron's cash festival,  Kevin's bacon powers, when we get to walk on the Boardwalk Empire, zombiewalk...out of a wrecked car, play MMO and win a sex doll, when I think games-I think Macy's, the FCC's f&#king decision, and Deadpool gets maxed out.  So, join the Whiz Kids on the Phoenix as the Voyagers head to the Saturday Supercade... you Manimal, you. BIg List:  4 slowly occurring annoyances experienced by gamers

Couchcast 58 - Pink Limpie

We tried.  We REALLY tried to get through the show without wang jokes.  But, with Paul on the couch... well... we tried.  But with the torrent comes all geek joy you can shake a pink limpie at.  We cover such diverse topics as the highest paid actor is younger than you, smelling like Bruno, Prince says something stupid... again, Titanic-eyed peas, Pee-Wee Apatow, Futurama...FROM THE FUTURE, Hulu-Plus for less, Video Games Live Tour paid for by viewers like you, Twilight finally kills somebody, the Demented web, Wicked Lasers, Sulu sex, Spidercat, place your bets on Who, Iron Sky, unregulated Free Enterprise, Smith's List, the Last Weiniebender, BP: the Home Game, Ebert comes clean, Bieber's Blooper, and Mumra.  A very annoyed Mumra. The Big List:  Top 10 Strangest Museums Ever BTW.  You can't have rubberwang.com . We own it now.

Couchcast 57 - But Archie, I Gotta Work the Pole

More fun than shoving a Zebra Cake down your gullet, The Ugly Couch Show Couchcast is here for all your nutritional needs.  We'll feed you with classic arcade cabinets, the big Steam sale, Final Dimension5nal Destination, Mafia Wars, Debbie Gibson vs. Tiffany vs. Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, Pattinson the Impaler, Trolls 3, Myers tired, the day we get to Hobbiton, Donner's Woman, Suicide Girls commit Comic-con suicide, Marvel TV guru, Kellogg's waxy box, .xxx, Make-a-Falcon Foundation, Huluplus, Starcraft 2 : Aircraft 2, Saints Row nudity, and everyone's favorite family website: Lemon Party.  Sure we're a little high in slat/fat/cholesterol/nerd but we're cheap and easy to unwrap.  So prepare to bite down hard on this week's episode of Couchcast. The Big List: History's Top 10 E3 Screw-ups

Couchcast 56 - Walk Without Rhythm...

Welcome to the Couchcast where you can have it your way... but don't get crazy.  Our way is inventing new burgers for In and Out Burger, digital license plates, Burger Box, fake iPads, having it your way at SYFY, government pork vs. unicorn, TARDIS for tuppence, Avatar xxx 3D, The Weirding Way, sci-fi prop docs, Shatner talking about Shatner in a film about Shatner directed by Shatner and produced by Shatner, The Boys are back in town, Strange is back in town,  Tron toys, comics go big box, the red dot of death postponement, Lieberman just doesn't get it, the deep philosophy of munching dot, family box, Jack knows you, with a side of puzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzle.   Oh yeah.  Mum-ra. Big List: Top 10 People Who Give Video Games a Bad Name And one person who gives LOVE a bad name.  (Hint: it's you.)

Couchcast 55 - Wiener Games E3

All the boys are back plus one as Deb joins us on this E3 extravaganza.  But that's not all that happened in this Week in Geek as we talk about Keanu Reeves Day, Indy Jones BS, Extra Twilight, Laser Tag apps, Cageflix, Rockband 3, Kinect and it's games library, new price points, Castlevania, Twisted Starfox, 3DS, Back to the Future games, The return of Manos, Touchdown Jesus is burning, the origin of the great and powerful Oz, the price of homework in Massachusetts,  Starfleetclix, Mickey and Wolvie, Doctor Vampire Hunter, the thing before the Thing, and Mum-Ra in this super-full couchcast.  So put down your Wiener Games and listen up kiddos. Big List:  Nothing.  There is no third thing

Couchcast 54 - 3D Porn - In Your Face - Wang!

Lord, help us.  He's returned.  Barry is back from his wiener tour of England and regales us with tales of wit and revelry.  Actually, just tales about ignoring everything else in favor of drinking whiskey from the tap.  But that's hardly all.  We also talk about the Unsinkable 3D Cameron, 3D porn, Kardashian Raiders, those damn violent educational games, Harrison putting on the fedora one last time, The worst extended fiction novel ever, Shreck can give you cancer, upcoming Comic-Con panels, Keanu Reeves Day, Torchwood's gettin' sexier, Best Doctor Who companions, Our new captain of the dance team: Spiderman, FastForward fans blackout and this time on purpose, multi-colored lion robots, digital comics, Vader diagnosed, Superhero strong-arm tactics punishable under the law, Carpenter's long awaited return, Portal 2 Event cancelled at E3, Thundercat Ho's, and the fact that you've been paying too much for your Fellowship. The Big List: Sci-Fi Wire's Hot, Creepy, or Weird Sci-Fi Creatures Humans Have Had Sex With. Oh, and we think that Paul and Mum-ra are doing it.  Seriously.

Couchcast 53 - Pokin' the Vagina Bug

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition and by "ammunition" I mean "the funny".  In this geektastic week we discuss perishable celebrities, good riddance to Tappert rubbish, Cheezburger Night in Seattle (I can has foul ball concussion?), Turtles fished from the Bay, the lack of need for more Alias, Metal Health will drive you to the hospital, Paul cranks the Bernie Higgins, Logan's Run takes another lap, one hobbit leaves The Hobbit, A man in black helps a man in blue, Apples that refuse to play in the Amazon, DC cartoons, one less Joker in the world, a year without Iron Man, SyFy stir-fry, FREE DINOSAUR!!!, countdown to Judgement Day, smart criminals get an extra year for being smart, the phone number from hell...HELL, the lack of window in your google, and Virgin gamers.  Oh, and a very stinky Mumra answers your questions. The Big List:  Sci-Fi Soldiers We Should Salute on Memorial Day. All this and vagina bugs on an all new COUCHCAST!

Aged To Deadly Perfection

It's Towel Day.  Are you a person who really knows where you towel is?  In this Ugly little Couchcast we discover many things about the world and ourselves.   We learn about the MacGyvermovie, why Bruckheimer can't keep his space junk off the screen,  why James Franco has gone ape-shit, why a bad spill will be cleaned up by a worse movie,  how to buy a horror landmark, the Mass Effect movie, how Zombie Meat is made (hint: it's aged to deadly perfection...in the graveyard), big-assed elevators for small asses, the end of Smallville, The rise of the REAL Transformers, missing Thundercats Scribes, Ninja rescues, LARP: the Theme Park, piano in Rockband 3, synthetic life becomes a reality, good riddance to Fox rubbish, video games help you to defeat Freddy Kruger, twenty dollar movies, Andy Serkis mo-clown college, expensive Tron games, Sinatra bio-pics, Fire and Ice in the hands of a master, Mumra, and much more. Big List: Top 10 Politically Charged Comics. Come join us.  Won't you?  Thank you.

Pedo Builds Robot for Gay Son

Sorry for the LOST week, yet all is not LOST as you will hear in this week's show.  Barry is on his "Wiener Tour of England" but we manage to get by with out him as he goes to bang some mash.  This week we talk about the Roller Coaster Tycoon movie, Universal Soldier 4, Battle Royale 3D, Blaming your crappy relationship decisions on your phone company, California not putting up with Texas textbook changes, the possible price point for Natal, alas poor Dio - I knew him Horatio, You used game buyers suck more than pirates, Charlie Kaufman's animation adventures, Getting gold from an ATM (We tell you how!), Full size Evangelion robots, George Lucas admits he didn't know what the hell he was doing, Possible Bill Gaines movie, Hurt Locker Pirates, Shia LaBeouf admits Indy 4 blows,  David Fincher directs for Walt Street, Time to return those Saving Private Ryan blu-rays, The Cape, Tim Burton= seaweed, and Paul gets excited about No Ordinary Family on ABC.  The Big List this week:  14 disturbing/frightening moments in children's movies. Oh... and Mum-Ra answers your question on an all half-new Couchcast!

CouchCast 50: Geek Scouts

CouchCast 50 explodes with the fury of a thousand angry suns!  Daverator joins the boys on the couch as we discuss Free Comic Book day, Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you), Star Wars Jib Jab, URLs registered by Disney for upcoming  stage shows and musicals, The Dark Tower movie, White Castle candles, Commando remake, Batman 3, TomTom Darth Vader voice, X-Men: First Class, Mike Leyde, Bejeweled 2, Power of the Dark Crystal 3D, J.J. Abrams new movie, Cloverfield, William Shatner makes millions from Priceline.com, Incognito, Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever, comic book crime foiled by spider-man, the flash and two jedi, arizona state senate bill SB 1307, human-animal hybrids, boy scouts video game education, geek scouts, dear mumm-ra, and the big list: top ten unusual festivals.

CouchCast 49 - Cereal and Dreams of Cheadle

Whimsical and magical have been Paul's dreams of late, filled with gumdrops and sugar cookies and Don Cheadle, prancing in the spring meadow with butterflies and unicorns.  CouchCast 49, on the other hand, is a vile, hateful concoction of malice aforethought.  We talk Cheadle, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, GhostFacers, Doctor Who, Matt Smith, Patrick Stewart, David Tennant, Super Street Fighter 4, Batman Live, Ring 3D, Friday the 13th, Leonard Nimoy, Goliath Tigerfish, Legend of the Seeker, Avatar DVD, Bad Santa, Alien Prequels, Torchwood, Marvel studioes third-tier characters, Spiderstyle, Olivia Munn, Ireland Video Game betting, schwarzenegger vs. californiz merchants et al, video game laws, saw series, doctor gordon, hulu, xbox channel, 7-11 buys used games, gundam cafe, slave leia washes cars, dear mumm-ra, and the big list: top failed cereals.

CouchCast 48 - Jesus vs. The Whiny Vampires

CouchCast 48!  The nerds-in-residence discuss John Malkovich in Transformers 3, a Mighty Mouse movie, Nicolas Cage's 9 foot tall pyramid tomb, the tragic death of Peter Steel, frontman for Type-O Negative, an Avatar Tree of Souls in London, Brannon Braga joining Terra Nova, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Matt Smith as Doctor Who, Kick-Ass, 30 Days of Night and X-Files mashup, Garth Ennis' Crossed as a movie, Stephanie Meyer's Twlight series and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series as challenged books by Christian groups, Downfall (Der Untergang) Hitler Parodies taken off YouTube, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Free Comic Book Day, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Boba Fett, Yakov Smirnoff, Nicoderm Stopsmokeski, Dear Mumm-Ra, and the Big List: 10 greatest fictional sports ever invented (courtesy of cracked.com).

CouchCast 47 - Dear Mumm-Ra...

CouchCast 47 is a scandalous wench of ill repute, covered in the foul discharge of a thousand murderers.  We talk about the star trek the experience prop sale in las vegas, how chad boutte is a douchebag, pinball hall of fame broken into, planet of the apes movie, tim burton, nintendo, pokemon black and white, starcraft match fixing and illegal betting in korea, the green lantern movie costume, stupidfight for twitter, atm thefts, nicoderm stopsmokeski, how we live in a big wormhole, chris hu's house burns down, star trek live at the kennedy space center, ted movie by seth mcfarlane, masters of the universe movie, unemployed skeletor, joss whedon directs the avengers movie, aliens in our midst, cowboys and aliens, open graves, open minds: vampires in modern culture, lord of the rings blu-ray trashed on amazon, and of course the big list: he-man's most mind blowing feats of strength and insanity (courtesy of toplessrobot.com). And making his podcasting debut, its Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living, scourge of third earth and sworn enemy of the Thundercats, in his new feature: "Dear Mumm-Ra". Mumm-Ra will offer advice on any topic you'd like to write him about, including dating, marriage, careers, finance, household tips, lawn care, and more!

CouchCast 46 - Roll for Stupidity

Roll for initiative!  CouchCast 46 is a seething, roaring mass of geekery.  We discuss Xbox Live's GameRoom, Chatroulette, Lucasfilm Animation's Star Wars TV Comedy series, E*Trade talking babies film, Stan Lee Media lawsuit dismissed, SiliFulin robotic tail, Comic-Con news: $753 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, Red Letter Media's Attack of the Clones Review, Joss Whedon directing Avengers movie, Ralph Baer inducted in to Inventors Hall of Fame, Craig Ferguson gets robot sidekick, rules of Scrabble are changing, Craig Rucka leaving DC, Capcom donating to charity for downloads of Lost Planet 2, Hot Coffee court settlement, FCC cannot stop comcast internet throttling, Asteroids world record beaten, DOSBox, XBox 360 ability to save data to USB drives, Tron Legacy sequels, XBox Live Arcade Award Winners, and the Big List: The 8 Most Common Ways D&D Characters Die (courtesy of toplessrobot.com).