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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!

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.

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

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.

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!  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 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 eart

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).

CouchCast 45 is a serendipitous hootenanny of flagrant excess and geekotronic ineptitude.  I have no ideas what that means. We discuss April fools, Godzilla, Spy hunter, Burger King's 404 Marketing, Iron Man 2 cologne, edible gold food spray, anti-piracy internship from Warner Bros, Gamestop lawsuit over used games, James Cameron's disdain for DVDs, FearFest, 24 and Scrubs cancelled, Malificient from Sleeping Beauty, Amazon may launch a Steam-like service, farm animals, convenience store robbery with a bat'leth, hardcore gaming, RIAA litigation against pirates, Voqha the Klingon Warrior, Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, things we learned from video games, Cloverfield, Pac-Man cartoon, Saturday Supercade, and the Big List: insane fan theories that actually make great movies better. Don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter on UglyCouchShow.com, and if you like what you're hearing, donate to the show!

It's CouchCast 44!  Apologies for it being delivered to you a couple days late, but even geeks get caught up doing real life stuff now and then.  We discuss the latest in geek news including Rear Gear, Brannon Braga, Blockbuster's bankruptcy, bhut jolokia ghost chili peppers, Chris Evans as Captain America, Jonah Piretti, NASA's office of planetary protection, Michael Atkinson, Green Lantern, Warner Bros, Battlestar Galactica: The Ride in Universal Singapore, Hogwarts set caught on fire, Nicholas Brandon arrested, Scream 4, Night of the Living Trekkies, Tim Burton and the Addams Family, Camelot on Starz, Indiana University and World of Warcraft, and the big list: undeniable similarites between nerds and sports fans.

CouchCast 43 is a sloppy drunken harlot crying in the bathroom because she didn't get a birthday cake.  We discuss Barry's whisky and wiener tour of England, London Expo, Batman: Arkham Asylum - Game of the Year Edition, 3D support for games, Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Pokewalker, Avatar on DVD, He-Man booze, nocturnal emissions, Temuera Morrison as Abin Sur in Green Lantern, Peter Graves, Improv Comedy, Hugo Weaving as Red Skull in Captain America, Patton Oswalt's Serenity comic Float Out, Activision's War for Cybertron game, Comic-Con News, a new Battlestar Galactica project, world-ending asteroids, James Lipton and the Thundercats theme, Pac-Man Battle Royale, Xanadu Las Vegas, and the Big List: the 9 Real Life Levels of Hell.

Dave-erator joins the crew on the ugly couch as we discuss the week in geek: Lady Gaga track pack for Rock Band, Battlestar Galactica browser based MMO, Capcom Street Fighter IV for iPhone, In The Beginning by John Fusco and David Cunningham, Fright Night remake by Craig Gillespie and Marti Noxon, Marvel's ultimate comic fan's TV, a relaunched Police Academy movie, Reign of Fire, Pet Sematary remake, J. Michael Straczynski writing Superman and Wonder Woman, King Kong coming back to Universal Studios, new Futurama episodes on Comedy Central, Tron: Legacy, Tron animated series on Disney Channel, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Felicia Day stars in Red on Syfy, Alice in Wonderland, Caprica, Rock Band 3, Chile earthquake moves the city of Concepcion 10 feet, Mcdonald's McDelivery service in Singapore, Sophia Heesch identifies Lego Star Wars figures with her mouth, William Shatner's myouterspace.com social network, LactoPharma's Recharge ice cream, 600 million tons of ice found on the moon, and the Big Lis

Bah Weep Granah Weep Ninni Bong!  Episode 41 is a slathering amphibious mass of bile and fecundity.  Let's talk some geek. We've got nerds vs jocks, the trem "hella" as a unit of measurement, taylor lautner, max steel, stretch armstrong, hasbro, mattel, club eternia, he-man, skeletor, lex luthor, robert kirkman, walking dead, sonic boycott, buy nothing day, showgirls 2, george r. r. martin, song of ice and fire, game of thrones, wheel of time, harry potter, dumbledore's homosexuality, max headroom, new superman script, the man of steel, abraham lincoln: vampire hunter, chile earthquake shifts earth's axis, playstation network glitched, y2k bug in ps3, craig ferguson, mythbusters, robot sidekick, imahara, twitter, 4 million of comics on ebay, my hair is a bird, your argument is invalid, apple sweatshop, apple child labor, iceberg breaks off antarctica, world ending, global catastrophe, lara croft way, derby street name, university of mississippi mascot, admiral ackbar, ole miss, ghoulies, earl's court tube st

A candid interview with Comic-Con's Director of Marketing & PR regarding the rumors about Comic-Con International's possible change of venue Barry Robb - www.uglycouchshow.com February 28, 2010 Every summer for over 40 years, geeks of all walks of life have descended upon San Diego by the tens of thousands to attend Comic-Con International, a non-stop 5-day mega-convention celebrating comics, movies, pop culture and the visual arts.  It's almost a required coming-of-age pilgrimage for any fan of pop culture.  And for 40 years, San Diego has proudly hosted Comic-Con and made welcome its 125,000+ visitors, but recent rumors and speculation about the host city of choice being subject to change have left long time convention attendees wondering where they will be going on their yearly vacation after 2012, when the convention's contract with the San Diego Convention Center expires. The San Diego Union Tribune reported that Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Anaheim have reached out to CCI in hopes of luring the con

Like a one legged monkey butler on a benzedrine high, it's CouchCast 40.  We're talking about a Doc Savage movie, a Missile Command movie, the A-Team comic, James' Cameron's Avatar prequel story, Willow novels, the possibility of Comic-Con moving away from San Diego, Joss Whedon & Morgan Spurlock's comic-con documentary, Dungeons and Dragons with Porn Stars, DC Entertainment, Shit My Dad Says starring William Shatner, Terra Nova, Doctor Superknives vs. Robot Dinosaurs, Wil Wright, iBoobs, Apple's iPhone App store, porn on the las vegas strip, "me who can't stop his right hand and childhood sister" (japanese masturbation video game), starcraft 2 beta keys for sale, civilization 5, the first games we ever bought for the pc, commodore 64 games, bill budge's pinball construction set, pinmame, star trek: the next generation, gates mcfadden, the naked now, and the big list: more things we learned from playing video games. Go to uglycouchshow.com and subscribe to our newsletter!

The Famous Paul interviews Mike Sacks, author of And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft.

Couchcast 39 is an obstinate, pretentious bitch, with a hints of oak and despair, and a black currant afterthought.   Vernon Wilmer and the Dave-erator join us on the ugly couch to discuss the Edward Cullen ManPillow, Jaws remake in 3d, Roland Emmerich taking on Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, Computer Engineer Barbie, girls with glasses, fang bangers, thought crimes and free speech on Xbox Live, upcoming Xbox 360 releases, Pac-Man, Blackstar, Natal, UK cinemas boycotting Alice in Wonderland, Dean Koontz, Kevin Smith vs. Southwest Airlines, Degrassi, Zombieland, Star Trek Online, Giles Aston, Doctor who's (re)Tardis, Robot Unicorn Attack, Top Reman Noodles, and the Big List: Things We've Learned From Video Games!

It's CouchCast 38: the Attack of the Sequels!  We talk Confessions of a Super Hero, costumed characters on the Las Vegas strip, generous donations from our wonderful fanbase, Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who, celebrity tarot lounge, Ghostbusters 3, Bill Murray, Zombieland, Dethklok's Mordhaus fountain from Metalocalpyse, the auction of props and costumes from Star Trek: the Experience, Daredevil reboot, Nick Fury, The Kingpin, Alan Moore, Watchmen, Zack Snyder, Sonic the Hedgehog, Gobots, Assassin's Creed, Batman porn from Vivid, an Olivia Munn comic, Swollar, and The Big List is all about upcoming movie sequels!

CouchCast 37 brings you the 20 Laws of Nerddom!  We also discuss George Lucas making an animated movie, an animated Joe Dirt, Gatchaman, upper deck lawsuit concerning counterfeit yu-gi-oh cards, the passing of Zelda Rubenstein and J.D. Salinger, Poltergeist, austrek 2, superman returns, superman 4: the quest for peace, Paul's fucked up childhood, He-man and The Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Macbeth, neon genesis evangelion and of course, Felching.

Couchcast 36 welcomes back The Famous Paul from his exile to the ocean!  We discuss a Mortal Kombat movie remake, William Shatner to host RAW, Tony Hawk Ride 2, Baby and Me for Wii, Dungeons and Dragons taken away from prison inmate, Sonic the Hedgehog roller coaster, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Avatar is the #1 movie of all time, AMC's Walking Dead series, i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es 1nit!!!1, BBC video games, Cold Space, Lord of Ultima, video game science, gratuitous filth about Hermione Granger and the Juggernaut and more.