Geek Shock

CouchCast 35 is a blathering, spiteful call for attention.  We discuss Avatar porn, stateside Torchwood in development from Fox, Spider-Man trilogy reboot, George Lucas ruining Star Wars again with 3-D, Push TV series, Jurassic Park 4, the end of Marvel's Siege and Marvel Avengers titles, Marvel's Siege #3 Deadpool variant offer, Hawaii Five-O reboot, Hellgate: London, Star Trek tie-in novels, Brian Bendis' Powers TV series, Game of Thrones on HBO, Top US game console titles, and more.

CouchCast 34 is a nerd-splosion of new years news!   We talk Frank Henenlotter's Bad Biology, a 5-disc Back to the Future Blu-Ray set with Jaws19 in 3D, the life and times of Lady GaGa in comics, Star Trek wetsuits, Near Death Studios' Meridian 59, Def Leppard cartoon and video game, Avatar and James Cameron, Wallet Pop price comparisons, Dragon Age: Awakening (a Dragon Age: Origins expansion), EA closing multiplayer servers for old sports games, drug dealer busted through World of Warcraft, Deadpool spin-off with Ryan Reynolds, Frogger world record, games to get cheaper, Planet Calypso MMO real estate, guitar hero controllers as domestic violence weapons, our varied interest in games soon to be released, and more!

Happy New Year from geekland!  For CouchCast33, lets talk about..eh...some best and worst lists for 2009, big bang theory, and a bunch of other stuff that is of interest to geeks like us.  Just go listen to it.

CouchCast 32?  Already?  Let's talk Dragon Age comics, Zachary Quinto in Star Trek Online, Assassin's Creed II DLC packs, Microsoft's user-health-generated avatars, Good Old Games sale, Magneto origin movie not happening, Dante's Inferno marketing, Lawrence Fishburne in Predators, Dan O'Bannon dead at 63, Red Letter Media's deconstruction of Star Wars Episode 1 the Phantom Menace, Spider-Man 4 halted, Captain EO, commonsense media's list of alternative games for christmas gifts, patrick stewart getting knighted by the queen, and a lot more geek news.

It's almost christmastime here at the the Ugly Couch Show, and CouchCast 31 delivers like a drunken Santa all hopped up on bennies and cough syrup!  We talk about Grant Morrison's biopic, one-more-turn-itis, geeky christmas ornaments, nintendo's next console, playstation network, age of conan and mmo subscriptions, paranormal activity's iphone comic, zombie roadkill on fearnet, paul reubens (pee-wee herman) and the pee-wee's playhouse movie, a sequel to batman: arkham asylum, the marvel universe, frank miller's xerxes, damn nation, sigorney weaver spilling the beans about ghostbusters 3, avatar, twilight moms, and more!

Couchcast 30!  Our 30th geek news podcast.  We speak of, Left 4 Dead 2, Deb, a Lego gun, video games exhibition at the Smithsonian, Silent Hill play in Sweden, Stat Trek Online exclusives, New England Imperial Stout Trooper beer, video game ban in Venezuela, John Malkovich as The Vulture in Spider-Man 4, Anne Hathaway as Black Cat in Spider-Man 4, McG and the Terminator franchise, and much more!

CouchCast 29, now available on iTunes as well as Podbean and of course uglycouchshow.com!  We talk Marvel Universe, The Punisher, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Direct2Drive, Activision, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, the Battleship movie, Amityville Horror, Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Activity 2, Area 51, Stephen King Under the Dome, Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Kreuger, Archie's Riverdale Run, and a lot more I totally forgot to write down!

CouchCast 28!  We discuss The Crow reboot, Splatterhouse shoes, a new Kull the Conqueror movie, Fight Club's blu-ray, Jackass 3D, Chevy Chasein a Superbowl ad, Gentle Giant's new R2D2 statue, the guy who spoke only Klingon to his child, FPS shooters and geneva convention violations, classic Atari gaming on the web, emergency broadcast system alerts on Xbox Live, a zombie MMO, a lawsuit against Blizzard, and a lot more!

In CouchCast27 the crew discusses shooting people in an airport and other pros and cons of the supposedly controversial "No Russian" level of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, mass layoffs at EA and Pandemic studios, a kidnapper forcing his detainee to buy him a gaming console, why to buy a PS3, Jeff's video technology snobbery, Stephen King's next Dark Tower book, Buffy animated web comic voice casting, the fourth kind, Black Dynamite, Chocolate Giddy-Up, what's the deal with the Olympics, why Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunter Academy are terrible awful shows, Torchwood may be coming back, Waters of Mars was excellent, the pros and cons of the new "V" series, buying a house from New Moon, and more.

CouchCast 26 time, and Torgo is indeed a wang.  80s Jeff, Master Torgo and Dr. Vlarg are rejoined by the Famous Paul, fresh off the boat!  We talk Fangoria's Trinity of Terrors, Eviltron and why Torgo is a rotten bastard, adn so much more stuff it's just ridiculous.

Vegas, you fail me.  CouchCast 25 is full of failure.  We take a night full of fail and make it into a CouchCast full of geek.  We talk old Las Vegas, Hard Rock, haunted houses, zombie survival haunted houses, zombie apocalypse in academia, symphony of science, gamers around the world, and more.

CouchCast 24 is filled to the brim with funkalicious nerditude!  Torgo, Vlarg, and 80sJeff are joined on the couch by the boys from Role Playing Radio (available on Xradio.biz, Saturdays from 2 to 4).  We discuss cybernetics, Xbox updates, Facebook, Twitter, the Microsoft Surface, Dungeons and Dragons, Monster Squad, Scary Movie 5, Band Hero, X-Men movies, Star Trek Online, and more.

Torgo, Vlarg and 80s jeff are joined in the studio (ok, living room) by geek chicks Deeb and Bianca as they discuss the next Xmen movie, Bryan Singer, the Viewmaster movie, Alex Kurtzman, Turk 182, obscure pop culture references, Megan Fox, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Ghostbusters 3, the Thor movie, Marge Simpson in Playboy, Independence Day 2, Ian McKellen, the Hobbit movie, Neil Gaiman on Twitter, Flash Forward, Ron Moore on Star Trek, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Terry Farrell as Dax, Supernatural, Stay Tuned, CSI Miami, Wil Wheaton's Memories From The Future, Facebook stalkers, the World of Warcraft movie, Couples Retreat, Zombieland, scary movies, Beetlejuice, Garth Ennis' The Pro, Left 4 Dead 2, Austrailan censorship, Sealand, Cal Sagan, and buttspree.

Couchcast 22!  We discuss Furries, Highlander, Project Gaydar, JackKirby's heirs reclaiming rights to characters, Nightmare on Elm Street trailer, Human Centipede, Star Wars: The Old Republic beta, Good look boost wages, Kate plus 8, Stephen King writes for Fangoria, Trinity of Terrors horror festival, Furry conventions, and other news for the week in geek.

CouchCast 21 arrives, fresh from the fetid loins of a demon wildebeest, slavering for the sickly sweet aroma of delicious man-flesh!  Master Torgo, 80's Jeff and Dr. Vlarg discuss Patrick Swayze's death, Disney's D23 Expo, Star Tours, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Kurt cobain in Guitar Hero 5, Joss Whedon, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, EA's questionably awesome marketing methods, Vampire Diaries stars getting arrested, the Season Finale of True Blood, Star Wars Galaxies, a new Dune movie, DC Entertainment, Torgo's screwed-up dreams and more!

CouchCast 20 is a cavalcade of contemporary geekery!  We discuss Star Trek, Dreamcast, Smallville, Take Two's settlement over Hot coffee, modding games, East Press' Mein Kampf manga, a Twilight corn maze in Utah, Rambo 5, The A-Team, the Hobbit Movie, the Army i nSecond Life, Fat Directors, browser-based Star Wars MMOG, Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, and more.

CouchCast 19 is chock full of peanut butter and awesome. Emily Jillette and Kyle the wonder-something-or-other join Master Torgo, The Famous Paul, 80’s Jeff and Dr. Vlarg on the couch to discuss PAX (Penny Arcade Expo), Disney acquiring Marvel, Teen Wolf, Fantastic Four, DJ AM, The Duggars, John Gosselin, Wil Wheaton, The Guild, True Blood, Shadow Land, Batman (again), The Smurfs, Achron, Star Trek The Experience rumors, why gamers are fat, and magical unicorn jizz. Seriously.