CouchCast 42: He-Man Walks Into a Bar…

Posted on | March 10, 2010 | No Comments

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 List: Top 7 ways games can transform you into a superior human being.

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CouchCast 41 – Bah Weep Granah Weep Ninni Bong

Posted on | March 3, 2010 | No Comments

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 station, police box, doctor who, fraggle rock comics, fraggle rock, dark crystal, dungeons and dragons online, micro-transactions, star trek online, star trek online report, little big planet, 9 greatest 80’s sleazebags, elan sleazebaggano, wandering geek and paul is all gay and stuff!

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The Truth About Comic-con Leaving San Diego

Posted on | February 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

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 convention away from San Diego with promises of more convention space, more hotel rooms, discounted rates for attendees and more. However, San diego area businesses are making their own efforts to keep the massive convention right where it is. Comic-Con organizers are expected to make a decision about the future of the con within a few months.

We asked David Glanzer, PR spokesman for Comic-Con International, to help shed some light on these rumors.

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CouchCast 40 – Los San Anaheim Comic-Con?

Posted on | February 24, 2010 | No Comments

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.

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