2011 Year in Review: Highlights and 2012 Preview

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network of podcasts. And now, your hosts, Steve

Megatron Phillips, Mike TFG1 Blanchard, Kevin

Optimus Solo Thompson, and Michael Peekoncourt

Wilson. Hello and welcome to the GeekCaster Radio

Network 2011 Year in Review Show. I am one of

your hosts, TFG1 Mike, and joining me is Optimus

Solo, hello. Happy New Year! Yes, exactly. Peekoncourt

Michael, hello. Hey, how's it going? It's going

and Steve Megatron. Hello. Hello Before we get

into our recap of 2011 We're gonna join in unison

singing Auld Lang Syne No, I have no but I'll

have Steve put the Kenny G version at the end

of the show Excellent What have I been up to?

Let's see. What have I been up to? Yeah behind

the voice actors comm Doing a few I did a blog

post on Geekcast Radio that we'll be talking

about later on in the show. Let's see. What else

have I been doing? I don't know. It's all a blur.

It's holiday season. What about you, Michael?

You know, I haven't done anything creative in

at least a month. So it's mostly just, you know,

me being a dad. That type of thing. Yeah, I suppose.

I mean, yeah, there's that. Christmas we got

lots of Legos for the boys. We've been I've been

building Lego sets lately and that's been very

fulfilling Awesome. Yep. There you go. What about

you Steve? What are you been up to? Um Pretty

much just preparing for the end of the year stuff

Watching a lot of TV I ordered a pop screen filter

for my microphone Which should be here tomorrow

Cool Just in time for the year -end review podcast,

right? No, it's not not here now. It'll be here

tomorrow. It's gonna be late because this is

pre -recorded but um, yes But yeah, and then

I wiped out my entire computer and spent I think

that's the fastest I've ever gotten it up and

running again Six hours from start to finish

Wow There was no sleep that day or night. Yeah,

that's pretty much it You can sleep when you're

dead And as far as I go I've been doing some

blogging myself I've been recording tune cast

beyond preparing for this Sending off email requests

for interviews for next year and all that good

stuff I think where we're going to start with

this. Where are we starting Steve? Well We are

starting with of course the Beginning the the

thank yous and acknowledgments for the interviews

this year. Oh, yes, I Actually had to go back

and I counted how many there's only one that

isn't on the list that I put in the in the script

But overall, in total, we had 13 interviews in

2011. I didn't go back and count what we had

in 2010, but that must be an improvement. That

has to be an increase in numbers. I think I actually

had an interview for a year. I don't think I

did an interview this year. No, you didn't. Because

you've been a recluse when it comes to podcasting

you actually hate podcasting. Don't you know?

What we have gotten to time or a returning few

in the second batch so Oh, yes. I'm going to

go down the list in order. Actually, a first

for us, we actually interviewed two people at

once from the Command Center of the Power Rangers

podcast. We talked to Barbara Goodson, the voice

of Rita Repulsa, and Robert Axelrod, the voice

of Lord Zed. So that was a first for GeekCast

Radio Network this year, talking to two people

in one interview. And then Tara and I talked

with Jason Marsden. Lupus Convoy and I talked

with Phil Lamar. Tara Strong is a returning guest

where we talked about Arkham City and her voicing

Harley in that. I don't remember if Michael was

on this one. Yeah, Michael was on this one. David

Kay returned when we did the Transformers Animated

show and we talked to him. Steve set up the interview

with Brian Ward, which actually Brian will be

returning in 2012 as well. That was our first

DVD producer interview. Yes Yes, Brian is Currently

in my opinion the best DVD producer In today's

age right now for those of you that don't know

who he is He's the producer for shout factory

and shout factory is very nice to us. Oh, yes.

Shout factory is very awesome So acknowledgement

to shout factory. Oh, yes For me, one of my favorites

from this year was I actually got to talk with

one of my favorite bands, guitarists, Dave Brenner

from Theory of the Dead Man. That was very awesome.

Again, another Power Rangers interview. We talked

with the lady that played Aisha in Mighty Morphin

Power Rangers, Karen Ashley. That was very awesome.

Tom Kenny. We talked with him. I still wish we

had that audio of him... how he would answer

the phone as an angry SpongeBob. That was an

awesome moment that I didn't save. You fail.

But talking with Tom Kenny was awesome. Michael,

you were on that one, weren't you? I was. Yeah,

I was there. Yeah, no, he was very cool. I thought

that was interesting in that him having a standard

comic background, he would just basically talk

until we told him not to. Yeah. It ran a little

long. I just did a fast count. I actually think

that we interviewed more people the year before

oh Did we I think we had about 15 the year before

so but right around the same number, okay? Well,

that's because you guys did a lot of writers

interviews and actor interviews for the beast

unleashed Yeah, we actually interviewed Christy

marks twice Yeah, David Cage twice and Tara Strong

twice. But when you add in Kristy Marks and Tootelio

and Skier and Sorensen and Wise, I think that

tips the edge in last place. Right. Yeah. Kristy

Marks returned and we talked to her about the

GEM release, the DVD release of GEM. I talked

with Gort Lacey and David Lambert over on TV

shows on DVD celebrating their 10 -year anniversary

of that site being online. Very, very awesome

resource about finding out when shows are coming

to DVD. And then really the last one for 2011

was birthday present out to bottom us where we

talked with we got an update from Larry Kenny

on what he's been up to and talking about the

new Thundercats stuff and All that we also did

talk with Stan Bush back that that was the one

that wasn't listed We did talk with Stan Bush

about BotCon this year, too, but Larry Kenny

that was awesome to talk to him again Dudes super

yes most excellent Yes, and and next year's already

gonna be having some some good ones and oh more

that nobody knows about Your clue earlier on

that was mainly for you guys no one has commented

on that so far other than Steve so But yes. I

was like, you couldn't have made that more blatantly

obvious. I wonder who it could be. That was the

point, though. Because it's, you know, it's kind

of like something staring you right in the face

and you don't see it. And a lot of people haven't

seen it yet. That's because people aren't paying

attention to us because it's on holiday. Yes,

exactly. They're like, boo! So another thing

that we did and I'll kind of let Steve talk a

little bit about this is we We enlisted Kevin

to create a application for us because we've

had five people request to join the network this

year We're expanding. We're like becoming a syndicated

network. Yes. Yes. Yes What we're like TNT or

USA or TBS everyone's coming to us for exposure

Yeah They're like, yes flock to them. They they

know the way so now we have a handy -dandy application

for people to fill out Yes, and then that gives

us the ability to say yes or no Yes or no, you

know Oh, yes, we said no twice I've had five

applications and one of them was a 100 % no,

but The other one was just, it was too close

to content we already had. But the two, or not

the two, the three that we signed up for, which

are signed with, one of them won't be showing

up on the site until next year. However, we do

have two that are, have been on the site for

a little bit anyway. First being, What's On Joe

Mind? Which finally gives us our inside with

a GI Joe podcast Is that one all about sex? Because

that's what's on my mind. Yeah, it's what I'm

doing. Oh Joe mind. Oh Oh, oh And that was on

home mind No mind. Yes. Yeah, what's on bovine?

But uh, oh fine. That would be the cow episode.

Yes The secret cow level of Diablo 2. Yes, and

when Transformers fans go on that show, it's

called what's on Megatron's mind. What's on my

mind, indeed. So we finally have some GI Joe

exposure, although I believe we still have plans

to have more from our direct personalities here

eventually. Yes, there will be eventually once

we get done with a few other elements that we're

doing next year. But yeah, so that that is definitely

a nice and welcome show Love the stuff that they

got going on there another is a blogger in the

form of the movie revolt He has been a longtime

supporter of us since almost the beginning of

toy cast He's known as Godspeed on the boards,

but Dan Clark He filled out the application and

he said yeah, I know it's for podcasting hosts

But are joining networks as far as podcasts,

but would you guys mind if I would do blogging

and we were like, yeah, sure It's another opinion

that can be on the site. So he is gonna eventually

influence me to do dueling dueling movie reviews

though I'm sure doing stuff on the site again

being lazy bum and dealing with real life. I

don't think we can call it laziness, but yeah

But yes, and and the final one which is not on

there yet It does kind of have the the Joe theme

to it, but uh it's called star Joe's which is

another podcast which by far in any episode trumps

our Normal discussion episodes as far as time

limit. Oh Really? Yeah, well they hit three hours

and damn near every episode so Which you know,

I mean it's it's very well thought out. What's

the star part about? Star Wars and GI Joe, but

they're they're like a geek podcast that covers

things from the comic perspective So Wow that

gives us that gives us our comic relation to

all things geek nice Considering that's actually

sorry. I think we're lacking. I mean we have

we have GI Joe we have Star Wars I should say

we have You know transformers and and uh, I believe

we touched upon like masters of the universe

and stuff But we don't talk much about star wars.

I know that's my favorite franchise of all time

Yeah, that's the one that we had the uh, the

the part one and part two and maybe we can review

Eventually, I eventually have some type of clone

wars thing, but those dvd sets are so freaking

expensive All right Well, that will be later

on down the pipeline. But comics is a good thing

for us to cover. It's something that JT has been

wanting us to cover, and hopefully we can cover

it in more shows later. But it's good to have

some comic content. So that's another reason

why they got added. They will run a little close

to some of the content we have, but it's from

the comic perspective. So that is a nice addition

there. So yeah, that does it for the new additions

in 2011 to the network and Hopefully we'll get

some more in 2012 and grow there were definitely

for people that are listening We're definitely

looking for you know content that we don't currently

talk on or touch on Yeah, as long as it's the

rest of the fandoms out there Yeah, as long as

it's not too close to what we're already doing

like a couple of the ones that we've denied One

was someone wanted to do a bet like review bad

movies And it was just so... Even if it was bad

movies, it was just so similar to MWIRE we just

couldn't accept. As long as it's not something

so similar to what we're already doing, sure,

why not? The other thing that happened in 2011

was the site got a brand new revamp with version

3 .0 and Steve did an amazing job with that.

Yes, thank you. Everything looks real nice. Yes,

that went through, what was it, like two weeks

of troubleshooting before we finally launched

it. We definitely had quite a few discussions

on stuff. Yes, it was long -winded. Yeah, I think

for those entire two weeks, we probably had about

10 discussions averaging at least two and a half

hours each. But definitely some cool things came

out of it. I really like the way that you can

click on certain topics and it gives you all

the different Content that's related to that.

I love the featured guest page with all the images

that looks really cool And the show guide is

very cool Yeah, and you know you revamp the host

bios basically everything got revamped in it

and it looks just really Much nicer. Yeah, it's

more streamlined stuff is easier to find Easier

to read in most areas now with the new images

compared to the originals Yeah, and I don't know

I just I think a lot of parts of it just got

away, you know majorly upgraded and It's I don't

know. It just works a lot better. I agree We've

brought synergy to our core competencies. Yes,

and with that people want to join more So that's

that's a good thing and we did add a whole section

for host bios for both You know the main host

and the So you can check us all out and read

up about us there and have some fun searching

around and looking at all the different options

that you can do there as far as partners and

featured guests and all the different shows.

Very informative. Now, as far as continuing with

the site discussion, as far as I know a lot of

people every now and then will ask me, when are

you guys going to put an iPhone app together

or a mobile app together? that would take way

too much time and honestly we wouldn't even know

what to put on it because right now where we've

we've kind of gone in the direction of a mobile

app but we've gone through a different company

Steve through through what's on Joe mind brought

us stitcher which is a mobile app and desktop

app where you can actually stream our podcast

without having to download them and that's a

very very good resource yes If you're on the

go and you want to listen to the latest episode

of, say, Transformation Animation, or GeekCast

Radio, or Telecast, or Movie Weekend Review,

whatever it is, you can listen to. I think it's

like the first 10 of the most recent episodes.

I'm not exactly sure. I don't have it in front

of me. But Stitcher has been really great. Yes.

So that allows another way to listen to us besides

being on the web page, or iTunes, or whatnot.

Now Steve's gonna break down the numbers, but

when he first sent the original numbers sheet

to me, my jaw dropped because according to the

one that I have, and Steve can correct me if

this is incorrect, but... Oh, it's changed. I

got it five minutes ago. Okay, well, then you

can correct me after I say this because I just

have to say this. I would love it if we could

get this as weekly numbers, but over the course

of 2011, we've had... 5 ,846 ,422 hits. Unique

hits, unique visitors, or are we talking just

- Steve will - I'm just reading the number. I

don't know, Steve will have to - The number is

now 6 ,111 ,189. Awesome. Wow. They like us.

Some months have been, you know, a little slow

and then, you know, towards between like April

and - October we had our best months and then

August was out of this world. I know August was

badass. What did we do in August? We launched

version 3 .0 at the end of the month. Oh, interesting.

What month did we do, when did we do the top

100 was that? That was March to April. March

got 483 ,108, April got 557. That looks like

the big increase and it never really went down

after that. Well, it no, I mean it never went

down to the month the numbers that we had in

January and February Like if you not until July

July took a hit July went back down to four February

we're still the lowest everything else Right.

Yeah, it stays around 500 all the way through.

Yeah, so that looks like that top 100 might have

been a good thing Oh, yes. Yes, and I just leave

what's that? If you do a deep dive into the website

tracking, what pages get the most traffic? Aside

from the obvious like index or whatever. I'd

have to go back and look. Well, it would be interesting

to see what content is most pursued. Maybe we'll

have that by the end of the show. Maybe. But

yeah, so... Yeah, that's pretty much what's been

going on as far as that, and hopefully next year

we can double that. Or triple it. That would

be great. We've got some cool stuff coming. And

with the death of the Transformers related topics

for the time being and having different stuff

coming up, more diverse geeky topics, we ought

to be able to... Yeah, so it might actually grow

a lot more just because of that. Yeah, I mean,

because we've kind of, you know, we've said this

before, for those of you who have listened to

us before, at this point, the Transformers cartoon

coverage has run its course. For now, it will

be back. Yeah, it's run its course for now, but

we will bring it back eventually. It's taking

a pit stop. Yes, exactly. and Mater's in charge

of the pits. Anyway. So we're gonna, at this

point are we taking a little break from the site

news and gonna come back to it later? Yeah, we're

gonna take a quick break. So we'll be back after

this. So we are back here in the year -end show

and we're gonna kind of start the show off on

a little bit of a downer note. We're going to

reflect on the people that we have lost in 2011.

We have a huge list of people and it's just up

to each person to pick out whichever ones they

want to bring up. The thing we should do as far

as give props to those people that we lost before

we get into the regular 2011 content. Right,

yeah. Exactly. And I think probably the ones

that we should start with is probably One of

the most famous women in Hollywood, Elizabeth

Taylor. She passed away this year. Movie legend.

Yes, exactly. She was 79, I think, according

to this. Congestive heart failure. But yeah,

if you don't know who Elizabeth Taylor is, I

don't know what to tell you. Didn't she date

Michael Jackson? No, she did. somebody else really

famous. She's dated a lot of people famous, I

think, or she did in her time. I think she had

quite a few husbands. I could be wrong. She did.

The biggest one for me, the person that I was

most a fan of and most followed. Actually, there's

two. I'll cheat and give two because these two

people I was connected to my entire life and

one of them is Macho Man Randy Savage. Just watched

him forever on WCW and WWE. He was my favorite

wrestler growing up. Mine too. I didn't just

watch him. He was my actual favorite. All my

neighborhood friends, we all had our favorite.

One person's favorite was Bret Hart. One was

Sting. One was Ric Flair. Mine was Macho Man.

So seeing him pass was kind of sad. And the other

one, my mom and I watched a lot of his shows

growing up. And that's Peter Falk, or as most

people know him, as Columbo. I love Peter Falk,

from Princess Bride to his time on Colombo, just

the way he delivered lines and his style of acting

was incredible. He died, he was 83, and it says

that they don't necessarily know what his exact

cause of death was, so there's probably multiple

things going on, and I forgot to mention how

old Macho Man was, but I don't remember, I don't

think I said, so. I think he was in his 60s,

wasn't he? Might have been. He was up there.

So those are the two that stood out the most

for me I mean I can mention more later with those

two really hit home for me You know sometimes

you see you hear those celebrity deaths and some

of them just hit hit home more than others So

those are the two for me. I don't know about

you guys if you had other ones I think me hearing

the well, I know just to kind of piggyback off

your Peter Falk discussion there I actually found

out through Twitter and Facebook and I I didn't

believe it I had to go look for a news item on

it because I just was it was just shows so shocking

to me and one of the reasons why was because

I Remember watching Colombo with my grandparents

every single time it was on every time I was

over at their house We were watching Colombo

him and Perry Mason. We watched those two guys

religiously. Yeah. Yeah Think another one for

us that loved the police Academy stuff was Bubba

Smith passed away Ten -year NFL veteran and police

Academy franchise star Bubba Smith died at age

66 Natural causes so that's good. Yes Yeah But

that was kind of a shock to me as well. There

was a number it was kind of shocking to me going

through this list the number of Comic related

Spider -Man Superman Batman related deaths. Mm

-hmm. I mean we have a Jerry Robinson who was

a comic book artist for Batman Joker and created

the Joker and Robin as well. I thought it was

Two -Face too Probably. We had Cliff Robertson

who was Uncle Ben from the Spider -Man films

We had Michael Gough or go I forget Alfred Pennyworth

from Batman in the Batman films. There was at

least one other one I thought too. There was

just so many Batman, Jackie Cooper, Perry White

in the Superman films. So it's just kind of weird

how many connections there were with those. Yeah,

I think one that Michael will have a lot to talk

about is Corey Smoot, lead guitarist for the

costumed heavy metal group Gwar. He was only

34 too, by the way. Yeah, that was shocking.

Yeah, because I don't think he was with the band

since their inception, because they've been around

for like 20 years. But he came later on. Was

not my favorite out of the band members. He was

found dead on the band's tour bus early on November

3rd. Can I get myself in trouble real quick?

If you're going to be talking about the initials

RD, I don't know. I wish the Twitter guy was

somehow listening to this when it goes out. Because

I apparently caused all kinds of ruckus when

I made not so compassionate comments about a

certain jackass actor. And that I was proud that

I didn't know who he was. Did they die? Yeah.

Doing one of the stunts from jacket or on a jackass

type stunt, which oh my god to me serves him,

right? But anyway, that's me and then cold -hearted.

How did he die? It says he can dumbass Yeah,

you just said died during a stunt involving a

motor vehicle leaving the vehicle decimated and

seemingly melted Wow You know the other person

I absolutely don't care about he died during

doing what he loved. Yes, he did I'm gonna make

more fans because the other person I could give

two craps about, and that's mean, is Amy Winehouse.

I deleted her from my list. I agree. Sorry. I

know I'm a cold -hearted soul. I'll watch those

VH1 greatest lists, and they'll... They ranked

her as one of the 100 greatest artists of all

time because of her singing. The problem with

people like her... Sure, she might have a magnificent

voice. The problem is the celebrity that they

end up getting. The fame that they end up achieving

and just the downward spiral that that entails.

Outside of the pop culture, we'd be remiss if

we didn't mention a couple of the worldly, you

know, political deaths too. So we'll have to

work those in later. Steve, did you have any

that you wanted to maybe say some stuff on? Well

we had Dwayne McDuffie pass away. For those of

you that don't know, he was a comic book and

animation writer who co -founded Milestone Media,

a company known for creating multicultural comics

line. He died a day after his birthday from complications

after having undergone heart surgery. He was

also a producer on Justice League, Justice League

Unlimited. He also worked on All -Star Superman

and the final project he wrote before he or that

he worked on that was the written part of it

was completed that he won't be able to see, well,

unless he's looking down on us, which he is,

is Justice League Doom, which comes out next

year. That was the final thing that he was able

to work on. It'll be a masterpiece. Yes. He did

the Static Shock. Yep. Yep. That's what I know

him from, Static Shock. Yep. We have the creator

of Doritos that passed away. That's sad to me.

That the voice of Chester Cheetah? No, Doritos.

Did you see the part that said his family plans

on sprinkling Doritos in the dirt as he is buried?

No. Yeah, I saw that. I thought that was quite

hilarious. We're gonna feed you your last chip.

Hey, props to that guy for bringing Doritos into

the world. I know, they're good. Well, the normal

kind. You get into those funky flavors, it just

tastes like shit. I like the Cool Ranch. That's

where their normal flavors. Yeah, they have two

normal flavors the rest are garbage But yes,

and then moving into some more tech oriented

ones we have Steve Jobs Yes, probably the biggest

nerd death of the year. I know Yeah, although

I'm not a fan of Apple I'm not a fan of Apple

either, but you got to give the guy props for

innovating everything. He touches. Oh, yes if

it weren't for him all of our mobile hand devices

and our mp3 players and the tablets would not

be where they are now no because he's just a

crazy ass that probably was high when he came

up with the ideas and follow them through yes

not not to slam them I mean right right that

is how he founded Apple That and he was also

one of the initial investors in Pixar so without

Steve Jobs We might not have what Pixar has done.

Yes 3d movies and Toy Story and everything else

that's come from it since Any thoughts on Steve

Jobs Michael? It's a tragedy that he died it's

only 56 to Yeah, yeah Yeah, it was that liver

complications mm -hmm No, I'm sorry Yeah, no,

that's uh, that's a rough way to go I think he

had stepped down for about a year because he

was going to go in the treatment and he came

back for about a year and Finally caught up with

him. Yeah I think there's a couple other ones.

First of all, you know As far as geeks go some

people that I don't recognize or I'm not familiar

with but I'm sure the geek geek dumb out there

will know Elizabeth Slayden Who was the companion

to the doctor and doctor who? He was a fourth

doctor's companion. Yeah, so a lot of people

will probably recognize her She died right out

of the blue that was not even expected yeah,

she was still filming Sarah Jane adventures Yep

So I think that's kind of a geek related one

that we should bring up There's another one.

Oh, I think Bill Keen the creator of the Family

Circus comic strip was kind of interesting I

remember reading that was one of the few Sunday

comics that I read every time Garfield and Family

Circus. I always made sure I read So I think

that's kind of sad Family Circus was pretty cool.

Yeah I don't want Well, people may or may not

know this about me. I don't really talk about

it that much, but I don't watch news programs

anymore because they're so depressing. As a kid,

I always thought that 60 Minutes was the most

boringest news program on television until Andy

Rooney came on the screen and it was just hilarious

and Mr. Rooney passed away this year. I don't

think it was intentionally hilarious. No Well,

it was that snarky, you know witty Funny is the

fact that his final taping was November 2nd and

he died November 5th. It's like almost eerie

Yeah, that's very eerie. Yeah What always bothered

me though is every show that I wanted to watch

that came on after 60 minutes was inevitably

20 minutes late Because he had the final segment

There and prattle on and on and on and I'd pull

it a show on my DVR and instead of seeing my

show I'm seeing Rooney going I'm old as dirt.

I'm old. God am I old and it It's infuriating

is what it is. I don't want to say that I was

relieved to see him finally off the air It might

have been a better way to get him off the air

than to have him die. Dude! Come on! Seriously?

Mike's gonna cry. No, I'm not gonna cry, but

Jesus Christ. Another one I found eerie was because

I had just watched the celebrity roast. I forget

which one it was. Charlie Sheen? Don't remember

if it was Charlie. Yeah, it was true. I think

Charlie Sheen was Patrice O 'Neill's last Yeah,

I just was in that and Shatner So I just watched

the the Charlie Sheen one the night before the

news came out that Patrice O 'Neill had died

and that was his last ever Appearance and it

was just so weird that that I had somehow watched

that episode the night before he died like I

don't know that was just eerie to me like to

wake up and figure out I just watched the last

performance of a guy who died that morning So

that was kind of crazy to me. I think there's

some cool, I mean I know we weren't going to

talk about all these, but these are cool, geek,

trivial people that I have to bring up. Like

the dad to Violet Beauregard on Willy Wonka and

the Chocolate Factory. He died. The grandma from

Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore. And Grandma Huxtable.

Yeah. Those are all kind of crazy, just little

bit rolls, but ones that we all can remember

right off the top of our head. As far as what

they look like and everything like that. And

then Jack LaLanne, fitness guru. Everybody knows

him. Yeah, the one piece. He actually swam the

English Channel, towing a boat by his teeth.

Yeah. That was his thing in like the 60s. And

Obama killed Osama. That rant bastard. We did

have a positive death amongst us in the 2011s.

Him and Kim Jong -il can party together in you

-know -where. Yeah, they're gonna go buttfuck

Satan with Saddam Hussein. Is that an episode

of South Park? That was in the movie. I own that

now. So yeah, acknowledgments to all those people,

good and not so good, that died during the year.

Yes, I think the one good thing about about Obama

finally getting to Osama and killing him was

that now Supposedly can't make comparisons anymore.

Well By name is that Wow, oh god, yeah, there

is that but I believe that they made an announcement

that all of the troops will be home by New Year's

Eve Not in New Year's Eve specifically, I don't

think. They'll redeploy them somewhere else.

The war has technically officially been ended.

That one. Yeah, the Iraq war has officially ended.

They're not leaving Afghanistan. Not until sometime

in 2012. If you join the army today, you're still

going somewhere sandy. Yeah, they're going to

go to Iran next and take their nuclear missiles.

That's a whole other ball of wax. That's another

four years. Hello China. How you doing? How you

doing? Alright, so we're gonna take another break.

We'll be back after this with our top lists.

It's gonna get more upbeat here in a second.

Yes, yes it is. Top five music albums. It is

now time to get into our top lists and where

we're starting is... Top albums or top music

stuff in 2011 and Kevin and Steve have a couple

of mentions that they want to talk about So Kevin,

what do you got? Well, I just have a mention

because my favorite one of my favorite groups

of all time is no longer a group They basically

ended their run in 2011 Started back in 1982

the year after I was born and went to 2011 and

that's the the band REM I just want to shout

out to them because they were great and not sad

that they're over, but they put out two different

albums, Collapse into Now and Part Lies, Part

Heart, Part Truth, and Part Garbage, which is

a best of compilation. If you're an R .E .M.

fan, if you get that disc, it has every good

song they've ever done. And then Ben Folds put

out a cool retrospective, The Best Imitation

of Myself. That's pretty awesome. So those are

just my two shout -outs. I'd mention my other

one, but unfortunately, I have to admit that

it's going to be on Mike's list. Even though

I don't know what Mike's list is, I know it's

going to be on there, so I'll let him have the

glory of mentioning it later. But it is a good

album. I will say about Ben Folds that that actually

surprises me, because the only... it's not that

I'm not a fan of him, but the only songs I've

ever heard of his are Brick and Song for the

Dumped off of... Yeah, the Ben Folds Five, I

think it's Forever and Ever, Amen or something

like that. That whole album's good though. If

you go back and listen to that, there's like

at least eight good songs on that album. Sweet.

What about you, Steve? What'd you have for 2011?

Any album mentions or music mentions? I don't

remember exactly if Disturbed came out with a

new one this year. I want to say they did. At

the beginning of the year. Well, they came out

with Asylum last year. What they did this year

was they put together a Compilations and Rarities

album. But yeah, they've had new music both last

year and this year. Yeah, so I mean, I love anything

that comes out of that band. It's one of the

few heavy metal ones I can still listen to. Sweet.

The other one would be one I got for review in

the beginning of the year. which would be Stone

Collar, which is actually pretty good, and they're

not from North America, but you wouldn't be able

to tell that even by listening to them. They

sound like, you know, on par with bands like...

Alter Bridge, Creed, Nickelback. Yeah, Theory

of the Dead Man, all that kind of thing. It's

on par with that style. It's more so the style

of Alter Bridge and Creed rather than Nickelback,

but... I listened to it as well and it was pretty

good stuff. So. But yeah, those are my two. All

right. Now I have a top five list for 2011 albums

now. I also did a blog post about this, but at

the time I didn't have one of my picks because

I didn't. The way I base my list is what I've

seen or what I've listened to out of stuff that

I've bought or rented or whatever else. So. My

list here, there's only one difference between

this and the actual blog post. Number five. You

rent music? Huh? What? I thought you said you

rented music. No. Sorry. Didn't mean to sidetrack

you. What I meant was out of all the lists that

we have, whether it's music, TV shows, movies,

all of those, the music, TV shows and movies

are all the way I rank them or the way that I

come up with them is stuff that I've either bought

Whether that be music or buying movies and iTunes

or rented whether that be through Redbox or whatever

else for the movies and stuff So my top five

albums of 2011 number five Phineas and Ferb across

the first and second dimensions surprise surprise

This is the double disc CD soundtrack that went

along with the movie of the same name Phineas

and Ferb across the second dimension It's a cartoon

that has really good catchy music in it I think

my only gripe with this album is that they should

have made the exclusive an Online exclusive and

not a store exclusive because I actually bought

this thing twice I bought it through iTunes and

I bought a physical copy of the CD at Walmart

to get the additional ten tracks What we're on

the additional ten tracks Aglet watching and

waiting I don't have the track list in front

of me. It's like season one stuff. Yeah, it's

yeah the the album is a mixture of songs from

the show and songs from the movie so stuff from

the movie would be like kicking it up a notch,

which is a Slash guitar by slash. Yep. He wrote

it. Yeah Yeah, very awesome. My number four is

an artist that, like Kevin said with R .E .M.,

this one for me I have been paying attention

to and following since I was old enough to know

what the hell music was. For the first time in

the last 14 years, Darrell Hall has released

his second or third solo album. Laughin' Down

Crying and this album is just amazing. A couple

of good songs on there is the title track, Laughin'

Down Crying. Talking to You is like talking to

myself and Message To Ya are three of my favorites,

but Darryl Hall and also John Oates as well,

I've loved them since I was a kid. My number

three is a band I've heard about but I hadn't

actually heard any of their music until I heard

one song on an interview that they did with Rockline

Radio. Blackstone Cherries Between the Devil

and the Deep Blue Sea. This album is amazing

from the initial track White Trash Millionaire

all the way up to the bonus track of Die For

You. Really really awesome southern rock style

rock group. Other ones I like off this is Blame

it on the boom boom All I'm dreaming of and they

actually did a cover of Of um, oh, what's that

song? I can't remember what it is now. I'll come

back to it later All right, so number two I've

been following this band since their inception

since they Their first song that we ever heard

of was on the Spider -Man Motion Picture Soundtrack.

Theory of a Dead Man released. The truth is this

year. And I've loved these guys since their inception.

I actually saw them and hung out with them and

got autographs with them at a 2003 outdoor concert.

They were so awesome. This album's worth mentioning

simply for The Bitch Came Back. The Bitch Came

Back. Yeah. Good song. Yes. There's a lot of

songs on here that I think you would really like,

Kevin. Oh, I've heard most of the CD. My friend

has it, and we listened to it on our way to Sawfall

and whatnot, but the bitch came back the very

next day. It's just great. Yeah. The video for

it is very strange, though. Most rock videos

are... No, no. I don't mean strange as in, like,

strange weird, but it's just the concept of what

happens in the video is just really strange.

And number one for me for 2011 is, again, one

of my favorite bands since I first heard one

of their songs in 2000. Nickelback's Here and

Now. Most of what I've mentioned in my top list

here, I can listen to these cover to cover. Nickelback

is no exception for Here and Now. There's a lot

of really great songs in there. There's a lot

of, there's a couple of good party songs in there.

but there's a few songs that actually have a

message like lullaby or um oh what is it kiss

a goodbye kiss a goodbye is a song about how

fame is fleeting and it's just a very very awesome

song i think half of our listeners should stop

listening shut up top five television shows So

we're gonna move into our top five TV shows and

Kevin you're up first. I'm up first with my number

five Top TV show from 2011 now, obviously, I

don't know how you guys did it But I picture

2011 as to be the second half of last season

you know the 2010 -2011 season so some of those

shows were airing in the spring and then of course

the new shows from 2011 -2012 season so my number

five pick was on both of those and that is the

great and entertaining Hawaii Five -O. That's

my fifth best TV show of the year. Yeah, I've

said before that I'm going to once it hits DVD

or once I can get my hands on the DVDs or it

comes to Netflix or something like that I'm gonna

have to go back and watch that show from the

beginning. It's got a great cast you have the

dude the Asian guy from lost I don't know any

of these people's names the chick from Battlestar

Galactica the Asian girl and then John Locke

from lost. It's it's just to get a really cool

cast Terry Quinn. Yes. He's John Locke. He's

not yeah I Think the one thing that kind of threw

me off about this because again, I always watch

the original series growing up What really threw

me off with this is they cast? Scott Kahn, it's

really good in the role though As as Danno and

the only thing I can think of is is what he's

played is either a hard -ass background military

agent in Enemy of the state or tweeter from varsity

blues No, he's really good as Danno and the the

chemistry between Danno and McGarrett is really

good Which one was the vampire? What Now, there's

actually a guy in the show who played a vampire

in his previous gig, and every time I see him,

I can't get over the fact that he was the guy

that was the vampire. Oh. Well, Dan was the more

blondish, red -haired guy, and McGarrett's the

dark -haired, short, dark -haired guy. But I

don't know. I didn't know anyone played a vampire.

Yeah, I forget the name of the series. It was

forgettable. It only lasted about a season. Mean

this show isn't like an award -winning show or

anything. It's just fun. It's just entertainment

and entertaining and fun Yeah, all right Michael.

What is your number five for your TV picks? I'm

gonna go with modern family It's a it's a comedy

About about a modern family, and you've got Yeah,

exactly You've got the dad from married with

children The house is named Ed O 'Neill. Ed O

'Neill is in it. He plays the grandfather. And

basically all the children he has are Dorotic.

In a funny way, right? And they all play off

each other. But it's a good show. It's not my

favorite out of all the ones that my wife and

I watch together. But it's a good show. What

about you, Steve? What's your number five for

TV? My number five I'd probably have to say is

the a gifted man It's a little bit of a weird

difference to a different take on the doctor

show Because it has more of a supernatural element

in it So that that's kind of Why we watched it,

although it's probably gonna get cancelled anyway

My number four I'd have to say is Once Upon a

Time, which is ABC's... Q, wait, you're jumping

ahead here. Bite me. So Mike, what was your number

five? No, I'm just kidding. My number five is

a show that didn't get its just desserts whatsoever.

Because of all those... prudes that wanted NBC

to cancel it. The Playboy Club got three episodes

this year. I thought it had such potential it

was a fairly decent story going in and all these

groups went up in arms of oh they're gonna have

nudity on network broadcast TV which they never

did. This show had no more nudity than what soap

operas get. But yeah that's my number five. I

don't think people were scared about nudity.

Think people were just not wanting that lifestyle

to be out there Well, it's you know what it is.

This is just my thought on it It's it's because

it has the playboy name and it's because Hugh

Hefner his name is attached to playboy and you

know People are prudes. That's that's all it

is. Yeah, the guy's gonna die in a couple years.

We should at least throw him this bone He gets

enough of those God Yeah, I mean coming from

a guy who actually worked at playboy this is

uh, I Didn't see this as something that was going

to live very long No, what hammer is penis? What

what did you do? Kevin what is your concept?

Okay My number four is actually going back to

last season. Thankfully, it was given a full

season. Unfortunately, it did not survive the

cut and did not get picked up for a second season.

But it was my favorite show of last year, and

that was the Chicago Code. Jason Clark, Jennifer

Beals, and a great role for Delroy Lindo as Alderman

Givens. It was just a good show. I liked it,

number one, because it showed a lot about Chicago.

But it was just an interesting take of about

the corrupt police system and one main chief

lady or whatever her I can't remember what position

she had and then the one detective trying to

basically take down a corrupt politician who

was running the machine basically in Chicago

and it was just a great show and it's unfortunate

that it did not get a second season. How accurate

was it? It was pretty darn good I mean it was

fictional but it was pretty good for as far as

the Chicago stuff they showed and they talked

about was accurate. Now, obviously, it's a fictional

situation that's going on. Right. But it was

just it was a good I mean, luckily, they kind

of had a beginning, middle and end, even though

you could tell they could have gone on to more

seasons. But it wasn't like it was just left

with no finish, so to speak. So. Yeah, I like

shows that are centered in Chicago because I'm,

you know. from, I don't want to say from Chicago,

I'm from northwest Indiana, but I'm 20 miles

away. I commute there, you know, I'm familiar

with the area. So that's neat. What bothers me

is when you have a show that's supposed to be

based in Chicago and you find out that in reality

it's filmed in California and all of the L tracks

and everything are all on green screen behind

them. Yeah, no, this was, I'm pretty sure this

was filmed in Chicago. Oh, cool. It's worth checking

out if someone just wants a one season thing

to watch. Yes, I'm surprised I didn't catch that

one and a lot of people were up in arms it had

the most backlash when I got canceled there was

the most people trying like that was the one

show that most people were signing petitions

and trying to get back on but it was just Destined

to fail. I don't know if it was too close to

reality with all the corruption in Illinois or

what but Such as like Cook County's ridiculous

So that's my number four, what's your number

four Michael? I'm gonna go with Mike and Molly

This is a really funny show. It's it's basically

about two fat people who fall in love It's a

little close to home for me, you know But but

no actually the you know, I can't remember her

name again now, but the The actress who plays

Molly was it was in bridesmaids And she she was

awesome. She stole that show I Think she won

the award for Mike and Molly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

but Melissa McCarthy Yeah, that's her name. Yeah,

she was in the bridesmaids and and you know,

she like I said, I think really I really think

she stole that I mean that was that's just a

great series Anyway, Mike and Molly good show

Again based in Chicago The one guy is a Chicago

cop. They're always patrolling through Chicago

and they talk about the different Chicago neighborhoods.

And again, as someone who comes from Chicago

or near Chicago, I like that. You're Chicago

adjacent. You know, Northwest Indiana, for all

intents and purposes, is a suburb of Chicago.

We're still connected by the train system. It

doesn't take longer than half an hour to 45 minutes

to get there from anywhere here. All of the sports

teams in Indiana really mean nothing to me. I

guess it's like everyone here is all Bears fans.

It's either, oh, are you a Sox fan or a Cubs

fan? It's not like, are you a Colts fan? It doesn't

even equate here. So Steve, what is your number

four? once upon a time which is ABC's fairy tale

type story that they've got going which kind

of takes an interesting twist and all of the

classic stories that you would be used to considering

the crazy sorceress witch basically turns this

curse that pretty much her and Rumpelstiltskin

are the only ones that know what is going on.

Everybody else is oblivious to the fact that

they managed to get Snow White's kid out before

the curse was enacted, so that's the only person

that can break the entire method that's been

brought on by the Queen. That show is actually

pretty good. And my number four is something

that is coming up to return to its third season

in January. Something I caught in the end of

the second season and I've since gone back and

started watching from the beginning. White Collar

from USA starring Matthew Bowmer and Tiffany

Thiessen. Very, very awesome show. The basic

gist of this is... It's almost Dexter -like,

where Dexter is a serial killer that helps the

police. Well, this is a white -collar criminal

that makes a deal with the FBI and he helps them

catch people while also portraying his own agenda

as well. It's just very, very awesome television.

It's one of the only USA Network originals that

I absolutely love. And everybody should at least

give it at least two episodes, and if you don't

love it, well, that's your own fault. But it's

very, very interesting. What is your number three,

Kevin? My number three is one of the new ones

from this year, brand new in 2011, and just had

its season finale, and that's Terra Nova from

Fox. Probably the only decent thing Fox has going

right now. Besides their animation. But yeah,

it's a real good storyline, a real good plot.

Part sci -fi, part fantasy type thing with the

dinosaurs. Survivor type stuff, a little bit

of loss thrown in there. It's just a good show

and I really like the main character. And I like

the... Commander of the Terra Nova a lot better

than I did in Avatar But uh, no, it's just a

good show and if you haven't watched it, it just

finished season one So find a way to catch up

so that you can be around when season two begins

because it's definitely a show worth watching

Awesome Michael. What is your number three? Well,

my number three would have to be The Walking

Dead I really like this show. I mean I caught

it when it first came on last year on the first

season And it's like, I want to say the two things

that we could probably use more of in television

is A, nudity, and B, people being killed. And

this kind of at least gives you more people being

killed. By zombies. Well, you know, zombies are

another cool thing that we should bring to television

more often, but I wouldn't want zombies end up

being the new vampire basically yeah basically

you've got too damn many TV shows and movies

about vampires and so they they kind of snuck

in this zombie show and it took off it became

very very popular and it got approved I want

to say for two more seasons yeah and yeah I mean

it's just it's a good show it's got a good story

it's not about zombies per se it's more about

group of people who are trying to escape the

zombie apocalypse Not quite getting there right

because their life is just starting too much

crap at them But it's about how they react to

their surroundings how they react to each other

Because it's a very diverse group of people Right.

Yes. I mean, it's just it's an interesting story

But then you throw in the undead and the fact

that you can shoot them in the head and you can

shoot lots of them in the head Head shot head

shot. It's just a good visual. Yeah Zombies being

shot in the head, but yeah, I mean and they go

they go full bore I mean, we're not talking just

you know early Romero stuff with people shambling

in there and their suits we're talking like full

-on just a just a Stumpy torso wiggling its little

stumps that you trying to bite your brain Just

just that the special effects here are just phenomenal

Phenomenal zombies. Phenomenal zombie special

effects. It's a good show. I'd be surprised if

any of us hadn't seen it. I haven't seen it.

I suck. I'm not into zombie shows. The only vampire

show that I ever really have watched faithfully

is Angel. All the current state of the vampire

shows I don't care for. You are going to have

to pull up your panties. and watch the show,

Mr. I Like Angel. Anyway, Steve, what is your

number three? Just to comment on his real quick.

I have seen it. My wife likes the program. So

I don't particularly care for it, but I won't

not watch it either. So what don't you like about

it? I don't know. I just don't care for the whole

post -apocalyptic thing. And then having just

zombies. I don't know. I just I don't know. It

seems. It it's all that that kind of thing is

just kind of been drawn out already over the

last five years Between film and everything else.

So fair enough My number three show would be

last man standing Good show who would have seen

that coming but um, yes, this is Tim Allen's

return to ABC which I find myself enjoying this

show much more than Home Improvement. I wish

that they'd keep up with some of their better

writers instead of bringing back some of their

crappier ones, but I can't complain too much.

It's nice to see him back on television and not

to mention the people playing his family look

really well. Really well. You can say it. They're

hot. They are. Hot teenage daughters. What are

we talking about? No, they're all over 20. They're

all over 20. The funny thing is the the middle

daughter is actually the old oldest Of the actresses.

Yeah, she's like 25 and plays like 17 and then

the one that's like Like 18 or whatever plays

like 21 or something. Yeah, that's just creepy.

This is weird Well bothers me and I haven't actually

seen this show because I don't like Tim Allen

Just don't like Tim Allen. You know, I can always

either but I like them in this show. I can only

see so many Christmas related Tim Allen movies

before I'm just sick of the guy. I can't handle

it. I should take that back I don't like Tim

Allen movies, but I like Tim Allen TV shows Well,

he even said in the show he says what I'm not

dressing up in the Santa suit hmm. Yeah, that's

what I was about to say. It's it's the You know

the pre the promos that I've seen the previews

They the way he just kind of pokes fun of his

own career I find that degrading and demeaning

and But that's their stick That's what they do

Yeah, I don't see how you're gonna pull four

or five seasons out of him, you know roasting

himself Oh, no, he's only done that in like three

lines in the entire show so far He's only done

that like in minute times like there's been how

many episodes 10 or 12 and he's had literally

three lines that have Like reference to infinity

and beyond or whatever. Yeah, it's like three

individual lines. I guarantee you there's gonna

be an episode where his kids want to get a dog

and he does the whole big shaggy dog thing. And

I'll be like, I told you so. No, his kids are

all grown up. If he does that, then we will...

Do you bow before your greatness? No, it's it's

more about it. It really has nothing to do with

Tim Allen's previous career They I mean they

pour in a couple of those for homages, but it's

more so about the idea the concept of You know

a real man or a manly man kind of going by the

wayside to more What do you want to call it?

Metro? What is it called? Metrosexual sexual

type man Don't know men losing their identity

in a women's world and how he is a man's man.

He's an outdoorsman He works at a like a hunting

outdoorsman shop and he's trying to you know,

hold on to his manhood when he lives with all

females So it's kind of If you've got 20 year

old females living in your house, you lost your

manhood long ago Alright, so my number three

show. Yeah My number three is a returning show.

Damn discussion. The only reason why this is

on my list is because of the change that it saw

in its 13th season. Law and Order Special Victims

Unit. Stabler is no longer with us in the show.

They've brought in two new detectives. The 13th

season had a rocky start, but it's had a lot

of great episodes. It had a Captain Kragen centric

episode that was really good. And as the season

progresses, the new detectives have really found

their own way into the squad and working into

that family. So I've always loved this show.

I've loved it since it premiered. So that's my

number three. Without Danny Pino, that show would

be not worth watching. He makes the show now.

Wow. If it was just Olivia, I would not be watching

that show. Danny Pino is awesome. So Kevin, what

is your number two? Oh, are we already on me?

Yes. My number two is also a brand new one this

year, along with Terra Nova, my favorite new

show of the year. And I don't know, it's almost

like a guilty pleasure, but Revenge is an incredible

show. There's like a thousand storylines going

on at the same time, some very good eye candy,

and some, it's like a primetime non -soapy soap

opera. It's good, it's a guilty pleasure, but

it's good. And it's impossible, if you haven't

seen it, do not try to start watching it unless

you go all the way back to episode one or it

will be ruined and confusing and you'll want

to hit your head against a wall. Yeah, I'm waiting

until it comes to DVD or until it hits Netflix.

Wise choice. Yes. Michael, what is your number

two choice for TV? For number two, I have The

Good Wife. Interesting. This is a really good

show. It's Chicago -based, uh -huh. Again, yeah

again struggle base. Yeah, Chicago does rule

It's a Chicago based lawyer film and it the the

interesting thing is not so much that, you know,

they're lawyers and then they The whole damn

episode revolves around the minute being in a

courtroom. Normally, I wouldn't like this type

of show. It's like police serials You know, the

CSI is run as course for me the NCIS is run as

course for me, you know things like that the

this shouldn't appeal to me but but yeah this

is Chicago so it does well it's not even just

because it's in Chicago this is a show that I

remarked about earlier where I found out that

even though they have the L tracks going by and

they show Michigan Avenue every episode and then

the skyline every episode it's actually filmed

in California and they're walking on a back lot

in you know Hollywood studios or whatever and

they just have a green screen that they fill

in the L tracks behind them And that shocked

me. I'm like, no way. It's wrong, but it's amazing

how they do that. It's like, that is really cool

where you got a green screen and then suddenly

there's an L track on it. It's like, that's so

cool. Yeah, so they have these Chicago locations

that don't actually exist. They only exist on

paper or in special effects. But basically you've

got... you know the the good wife the reason

she is the good wife is because she's married

to a state's attorney and He cheats on her and

it becomes a huge scandal and You know if she

has to basically stand up for him so that he

doesn't You know so that his career doesn't completely

fall apart But at the same time she's confronted

with this fact that he cheated and she and she

she leaves him but She can't really leave him,

but she has to go back to work in order to support

her family Especially when he goes to jail for

the corruption charges and all that But so this

whole show came out of a law and order episode

It may have just just from how you're explaining

this that's it makes me think of any Corruption

law and order episode scandal, but I seem to

find law and order episodes they kind of they're

ripped right out of the headlines, you know and

There there's an awful lot of scandal in Chicago

For inspiration, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I mean

it's like take your pick here but the good thing

is that she's she's in a law firm and she's kind

of falling in love with her boss and Coming out

of season one going into season two. There was

a unrequited love that they finally Finally,

you know Yeah, they can't yeah at this point.

She's not a good wife She's a bad wife, you know,

and our kids are doing weird things and it's

stuff that it's not like weird funny Ha ha it's

weird. Like whoa, you know, what the hell is

your kid doing? Yeah She's got to deal with that.

But at the same time you've got the main story,

which is you know her in the law and the Doing

law she's she's in the courtroom and it's just

a really good show and every time we watch it

again my wife and I watch these together every

time we watch this together it's it's like wow

I didn't even see that coming that's amazing

how do they do that you know why would they do

that that is crazy how did this happen and then

we can't wait to see it next week yeah I really

like this show awesome Steve what is your number

two I'm cheating I'm going back to an older show

It's been out for a while. Okay, we've talked

about all... I mean... I'm going to say Supernatural.

Okay, well it's still out in 2011, so... That's

like 10 seasons in, isn't it? No, it's still

in the 6th season. It's going to go through the

7th season easily, just because they... While

I do love this show, I think since the creator

left... They've been just kind of running circles

around kind of playing with first season gimmicks

all over again So I think that they need to Kind

of hit the ground running when they come back

from break in January and Get the storyline done

What storyline are they currently on? Right now

there they have some forbidden hell creature

thing that God created that We're before angels

and demons That there's no way to kill apparently

Okay, it makes no freaking sense Yeah, so I mean

it while it is still Very good. It's getting

very convoluted very quickly So but I still do

love the show Yeah, I really liked that show

up until about the third season where I quit

watching it You know because they were getting

they're getting away from Oh ghosts and demons

and monsters into more biblical types. Yeah,

it gets very dark and then Things change dramatically

Through the fifth and sixth season And my number

two is something we have already mentioned last

man standing I liked home improvement to a point

But after a while, in its run, the episodes just

got repetitive to me. I liked a lot of the humor

with Wilson. I liked all that stuff. But having

Tim Allen back on TV and in a, you know, fatherly

role, I really, really dug it. I like all the

homage lines, even though there's only been three

of them. And it's, as Steve and Kevin have said,

it's not really about him making fun of his own

career. It's more so, you know, him. Trying to

be a man in a house filled with women I just

I love the comedy in the series. I love all of

the different skits that they've done like the

the three daughters did a Music video called

pie rack. Oh, yeah, but that was hilarious It

was So now we're going to enter the giant drum

roll Kevin what is your number one pick for top

TV of 2011? It's not a new show. It's a show

that is in its seventh season It is it is and

has been the best show on TV for a while now

And that is criminal minds It's not your typical

cop serial. This is nothing like CSI NCIS long

order any of those It has a freaking amazing

cast Joe Mantegna, Padgett Brewster, Shamar Moore,

Matthew Gray Gubbler is awesome, A .J. Cook is

freaking hot, Kirsten Van Ness, Thomas Gibson,

it's just a great, great show. The entire cast

is good. There's great interactions between all

of them and it's just really cool to delve into.

the criminal mind and to see some of the stuff

that they come up with um it has a lot of cool

uh quotations that they use at the beginning

and end of every episode um and it just i don't

know it's just a good freaking show and i don't

usually like uh you know stuff that delves too

deeply into the you know the Bad side of us all

or the devil that lives in some people so to

speak but for some reason this show just has

me and There was a great storyline that they

did with one of their agents who? They had written

off and killed Although she didn't die because

she had a big time in the past she was a CIA

agent and this pretty bad european guy was after

her so they had to fake her death but the whole

team thought she was dead for quite a few episodes

except for the boss and it just had some really

cool um in -depth storylines and they just lost

their uh overseer their boss of the boss so it's

going to be interesting to see how they handle

that and if there's any breakup shakeup or whatever

but yeah it's a great show it's my favorite show

on television awesome michael what is your number

one The number one show for me would be how I

met your mother It's just a really fun show not

based in Chicago oddly enough and it's based

in New York it's got Neil Patrick Harris who's

just really really really funny and and oddly

enough for Neil Patrick Harris he plays kind

of like a womanizing The type of guy whose only

thoughts in life are, you know, how many women

can I bang? It's got Allison Hannigan. Who was,

you know, in Buffy. She did the Buffy thing.

The only problem I have with Neil Patrick Harris

is I cannot buy into the fact that he is that

character. It's we you know after seeing him

in that character. I love him in that character.

He's amazing, but then you find out he's actually

gay I Wouldn't say it's obvious. I don't know

maybe my gaydar is off. I don't know Yeah, I

think he's really cool. I really like Jason Siegel.

Yeah, he's good He plays Allison Hannigan's husband.

He's really good. A lesser prop goes to Bob Saget,

who actually narrates. Which makes no sense to

me. It makes no sense to me. It's weird because

it starts off with a narration from the future,

almost like... Like Bob Saget's the future version.

Exactly. And he's like, kids, let me tell you

how I met your mother. And you know, it's like...

Bob Saget is he is really really hilarious in

real life. It's like you can't take full house

as the measure of his You know Yeah, no, it's

him being clean. Yeah, but here is he's just

a voiceover and basically all you see is you

know, the one kid from Wizards of Waverly place

and I think his name is David Henry and then

I know this because we watch way too many The

way she was Disney Channel, right? But then the

yeah, and then as the daughter which is I don't

know some hot girl Question is are they ever

gonna actually meet his mother? They keep hinting

like oh and you know, it's they keep going around

in circles and I keep thinking that the That

the mother is actually oh Hell Robin yeah, he's

thinking the mother's actually because the girl

looks a lot like her This is my uncle and aunt's

like one of their favorite shows, but eventually

they stopped watching it because they said they

just can't take it anymore They're like we how

many seasons of this can we take while searching

for this person? We just want to know who it

is get it over with tell us who the mother is

Yeah, well they recently has it in now What uh

third season I think? third season I think so

I bet they'll I bet they'll drag it out to ten

seasons and then in the series finale in the

tenth season they'll finally meet her. No, they

won't even do that. They'll leave it as a cliffhanger

that it could be two people. Yeah, that'll be

some crazy. It was funny, they just had a recent

episode where Robin was talking to her kids in

the future. And then at the end of the episode,

now this is really freaky, at the end of the

episode she says, and I kind of wish you guys

were real, but you're not, you're made up. And

then they just - Roseanne all over again. And

it's like, ah! It was really creepy now now that

I've given away my number one I wanted to recap

a little bit and say that there was three shows

that I was really disappointed in and This year

the the first one being doctor who? Mainly because

you know normally this would be one of my favorite

shows of the year But when they switched to the

new doctor the 11th doctor, I haven't been as

happy with Matt Smith There was a nice Neil Gaiman

episode in there in the doctor's wife, but You

know, I love Neil Gaiman. He's an awesome writer,

but it wasn't quite enough to make me as happy

with this doctor The next one is true blood the

fourth season of true blood just kind of bit

And oh god that that was horrible. Why did I

say that? Wasn't a very I mean compared to their

earlier compared to like season 1 which was awesome

in season 2 which was whoa season 3 which was

Wow, this is more than the same. It's really

cool season 4 just wasn't very good And my wife

and I love that show and then lastly Big Bang

Theory Which is should be It's it's great. It's

a great show a lot of people like this show,

but I think what's happening now is as the As

the popularity grows, as the audience grows,

they're not pandering to their original audience,

which was the geek. Right. Well, that's because

the show and the characters have evolved. And

they made a lot of geek jokes. Well, yeah, and

this year they had Levar Burton on they had Brent

Spiner on they had Stanley on I mean they still

have those geek jokes But it's not making fun

of geeks like it was in the first couple of seasons.

It's it's gone past The making fun of geek culture

and it's more so embracing it and seeing these

characters grow over five seasons I Would almost

argue against that. I would almost say that you

know, yeah, they're growing It's like everyone

else wants to see oh these geeky guys, you know

get girlfriends and then find their lives and

get real lives You know, and then there's a whole

lot of there Well, I don't want to say the core

audience out there But there's a lot of geeky

people out there who don't have girlfriends and

or lives and they kind of related these characters

and Now it's like wait a minute. This guy would

never sleep with Penny. He just never get that

chance There's no way in hell and then he turns

right around and gets The hot Indian girl for

you. Yeah, there's no way in hell. It's just

no no Yeah, it bothers me that they take directions

Going back to true blood because I don't want

to get into a big bang theory war with you right

now Going back to true blood. Have you heard

the news for season five? Oh, there's a guy they're

bringing in I want to say for my ER or something.

Nope Detective Elliot Stabler, Chris Maloney

is coming in as a super powerful vampire. From

Law and Order, SVU. Oh, okay. I know it's from

other shows that I don't watch. But yeah, something

like that. No, I think that's great. I think

they already have too many characters. But I

think the big rumor now is they're looking at

zombies. And again, zombies are the new vampire.

God. Alright, Steve, what is your number one

for 2011? Alrighty then, my number one is the

Big Bang Theory. I was about to say, no one else

has mentioned the Big Bang Theory. I expected

you to have it at number two and then have Supernatural

at number one. Well, if it weren't for the fact

that Supernatural has been dragging its feet

for the last year, I probably would have had

it at number one. But being that I've just gotten

into Big Bang 3 this year and the fact that my

friend had the first four seasons on DVD I borrowed

them all and we watched them and I've actually

got my wife watching it So that makes it even

easier to watch But yeah, I just I love every

bit of the show I haven't started on season 5

yet because I'm waiting till it hits DVD before

I endeavor into that because I don't really care

to download them all. Just putting it out there.

I just clean my computer. I don't really want

to try and risk a virus. But yeah, I mean, I

really love the dynamic of the show. I love the

geekiness that's in it. Yes, they've evolved

a little bit to the point that, yeah, they are

getting girlfriends and all that kind of thing.

But eventually that more than likely happens

to most geeks anyway. Is late, you know Granted

the ones that get girlfriends early or lucky

the ones that don't well, you know, you'll eventually

it just it's the same Unless you never leave

your apartment Then you're just plain sad if

you're like Sheldon fuck you guys I'm going home.

Oh wait, that's Mike I don't catch the reference

to begin with This all that much more funny Thank

you guys. I really love the show. I hope that

it goes on for many years to come, so long as

they keep it interesting. Oh, yeah. Well, they

find interesting jokes and interesting situations.

Even though Michael wants to argue against it,

even though I'm not a fan of the Sheldon character,

not all the time, he is Mr. Annoying to me. They're

putting they're throwing him into situations

that You would he would never put himself in

and it's just hilarious to see him in that So

for me for my number one Simply because I found

this show so interesting this year I'm praying

to the television gods that it gets picked up

for at least one more season is the return Sarah

Michelle Geller to the WV or the CW or whatever

the fuck it's called now with Ringer. Ringer

pretty much pulled me in from the first episode.

It is your basic classic twin switch places story

where supposedly one of them dies but really

isn't dead and the other one takes over that

person's life. But it has so many twists and

turns, has a great great cast. I mean you've

got Ian Gruffudd who was Mr. Fantastic. you've

got um... oh what's his name uh... christopher

polana in it as well as as uh... as her friend's

husband it's just a very very interesting show

and i can't wait to see what else what else that

they do with it yes everyone should at least

give it a try top five cartoons And now it is

time for our top five cartoons of 2011 and I

gotta say, outside of the top three, I had the

hardest time picking the four and five spots.

Mine was easy as peasy. No, not for me it wasn't.

I even have honorable mentions. Alright, get

your honorable mentions out of the way, Kevin.

The Garfield Show and the Looney Tunes Show.

Okay. Great shows, but I haven't watched enough

of them to put them on my list. They made new

Garfields? Yes. Yeah, The Garfield Show now has

Frank Welker as the voice of Garfield, and it

has Jason Marston as the voice of Nermal. That's

amazing. I gotta go find this. Yes, it's good

stuff. It's on Netflix. You know, I did see the

Looney Tunes, but I didn't put it on my list

because I completely forgot about it. But I've

only seen it a couple of times, but it is funny.

Yeah, those two are good. I just need to see

more of it before I can give it a spot on a list

of some sort. Um, but my number five is actually

completely different and I've never really talked

about this on the air at all. But, uh, I also

wish I'd seen more episodes of this, but every

episode I have seen has been freaking hilarious.

Pony! And that is... I'm sorry, what did you

say? No, it's not My Little Pony. Um, it's, uh,

Archer. Oh. Archer from FX. Which, uh, stars

H. John Benjamin. And it's a spy spoof. type

thing um it does carry a mature audience rating

it's just entering its third season and for some

reason i just find it very funny um it has a

couple people go ahead is that supposed to be

the same universe as c lab or just the same animation

style it's similar animation style and h john

benjamin has been on a lot of those types like

he was on uh dr cats and um aqua teen hunger

forest i think he did voices on um Oh, a lot

of that stuff. Space Ghost Coast to Coast. So

he's done a lot of those types of things, but

it's just a super funny, like I said, James Bond

007 spy spoof thing. He has a mom complex. It

also has a couple classic voice actors that I

remember from some other stuff. Peter Newman

and Maggie Wheeler, who is the girl that sounds

like the nanny, but she's not. Um, it also has,

uh, uh, Renee, Mr. I can't pronounce his last

name or John or whatever, Jeffrey Timber, um,

and Judy Greer, Chris Parnell. It's just, it's

a funny show and it's not for everybody. A lot

of people probably won't like it, but I find

it really funny. I saw some clips of that and

it reminded me of like frisky dingo. No, that's

a really good show. But I mean again, it's it's

funny, but it's got a kind of a spy angle Well,

at least a super villain angle. It's almost like

a quiet taste Yeah, no, it's definitely an adult

an adult oriented show, but it means it's good

stuff. I saw clips of it I wanted to see more.

It's couldn't find it anywhere Netflix as well

if you want to stream it I could yeah, I could

not find it on Netflix. Maybe it's new It is

now at least but it's just a lot of funny stuff

like he he works at the spy agency But he's a

complete moron and his mom's the boss and like

I said, he has a mom complex and his ex Wife

slash girlfriend. I don't know his wife or girlfriend

works there also and she's like just this busty

old hottie and She's now with a complete like

square and it's I don't know. It's just good

stuff It's funny. Everybody should check it out.

But like I said some people it's just not their

cup of tea What about you Michael, what is your

number five cartoon of the year? Well number

five, you know, I hadn't watched a whole lot

of cartoons This year for some reason but the

one thing I know As far as like series go The

one that gets played in my house over and over

and over again or at least has been for the last

several months is prep and landing Mm -hmm. It's

actually a Christmas special My kids love this

show it's about ninja elves that break into your

house yeah, they break into your house before

Santa can arrive and and basically arrange the

house in such a way that that You know Santa

will be able to easily land get in get out and

be on his way and the the next episode the new

episode for this year was all about the the cold

elf Brigade and basically if you're if you're

not Nice right the the ninja elves don't visit

you the coal elves visit you and they show up

and look for evidence of your if your badness

And if they if they confirm that you're actually

naughty, then they put a lump of coal in your

stocking nice Yeah, but it's it's it's really

cute We actually found a lot of the merchandise

at Hallmark So my boys now have a little prep

and landing action figures and you know nightlights

and things like that That's a good show. Awesome.

Steve, what is your number five? My number five

would be Thundercats. Okay. Only because I haven't

seen enough of it to give it any higher of a

rating. And I like the fact that they have Larry

Kenny back in it and they've got Will Friedle

on there and it just I like the voice cast and

the animation style and how they're they're going

with it so far They killed Larry Kenny like in

the first episode I know but they have flashbacks.

It's okay. It's it's sad though That's a rule

in cartoons these days you have to kill a character

in the first episode well It's like Optimus Prime

complex. Yes. Oh, let's not go there Alright,

so my number five is, even though at this point

it's only gotten two episodes because it just

started the end of this year, Green Lantern the

animated series. This is 3D animation but in

the Bruce Tim DCAU style. I really love the initial

story that they've told. I can't wait to see

more of these episodes. But the effects, the

animation, all the awesome stuff that they're

doing, I really like it and I can't wait to see

more for that one. I didn't realize that was

out yet. Yeah, it premiered last month with a

two -part one -hour episode, and then it's probably

gonna start running new episodes starting beginning

next year, probably in February. Huh, nice. I

keep seeing pictures, and they're saying, oh,

this is coming. It's kind of like the same, it's

the same thing that they did with Transformers

Prime last year. They premiered the five -part

miniseries at the end of 2010 in November, had

us wait three months till February, and then

we got the entire season. Well, off and on throughout

2011, but I mean, it's the same principle. They'll

premiere something with a one -hour special and

then they'll make you wait three months. Right.

Kevin, what is your number four? It might surprise

some people, but my number four is actually Transformers

Prime. The only reason it's not higher is because

it hasn't gone far enough yet in season one.

it kind of stalled a little bit both in providing

us with episodes and carrying on the storyline.

So I think it could have got a little further

in season one and hopefully future seasons can

remedy that. But the design is epic as far as

the character designs and the animation and the

look of everything, the style that they picked

was awesome. Even Even though it has some slightly

movie esque designs the overall like backgrounds

and imagery is really cool. The voice cast is

awesome There's not really much bad. I can say

about it. I just can't put it in higher because

like I said I think I need the plot lines and

the stories to develop a little tiny bit faster

But still an epic Transformers addition to the

franchise Michael what is your number four? For

a number four, I actually chose an anime High

school of the dead. I Don't know if you guys

have seen this probably haven't I don't know.

That's your No hates anime of all types Shut

up. I don't hate anime. I just don't enjoy it.

I I'm indifferent to it. I I respect for what

it's done for animation, but it's not my cup

of tea Well, they only had one season This year

they're supposed to make another season of another

12 episodes next year, but it's basically about

a Group of high school students who are trying

to escape the zombie apocalypse It takes a different

tact from like the walking dead It's basically

the Walking Dead anime. Well, first they have

to, in the first episode, they all meet and learn

who they are. This is, again, a diverse group

of people coming together out of necessity. And

then they have to escape this high school. And

once they get out, they basically go across Japan

trying to figure out... Where the safe spots

are how to kill zombies things like that and

they're really smart about it I mean a lot of

times you'll see people say oh don't go in that

room and they go in that room Anyway, they die.

Well and here they're they're really really smart

It's like they've studied up on their zombie

lore before they go out, you know and try to

and try to kill zombies but there's a lot of

There's a lot of gratuitous fan service here

Yeah, which which you know, yeah, it makes it

interesting in one regard but on the other hand

Like the walking dead. There's a lot of zombie

killing like like and they all you know, you

have to shoot him in the head Okay, fine. Well

lots of zombie killing But I would recommend

giving it a shot I mean if you like zombies and

boobs Who doesn't honestly come on well the boobs

part, yeah You know zombies we can leave at home.

No, you don't like zombies. No, dude the walking

dead rock I mean, that's just the this TV show

but like in general, you know zombies zombies

I'm not a fan of the undead. No, not enough.

I mean aside from the smell Steve what is your

number four? Wow Way to go and give him in that

follow -up The Looney Tunes show While I do like

the the fact that it's it's returned to television

I find it a little weird that they're in the

human world now The animation style is a little

I don't know. It's it takes a little bit of getting

used to For being used to the old way But I like

what I've I've been seeing so far of it though.

I haven't caught a whole lot of episodes of it,

but It seems pretty enjoyable from what I have

watched Yes, yeah, I'm really happy with the

I don't want to say the comedy here, you know

It's funny, but a lot of it's relevant and it's

like porky pig rents a car, you know It has to

be relevant comedy to today's standards of children

because I'm sorry none no kid today is gonna

get a Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck joke from 1945. I

can barely watch that stuff anymore, to be honest.

I still love that. That's a discussion for another

day, but yeah. But I've seen a couple episodes

of that, and again, it probably would have been

on my list if I'd remembered that I'd actually

seen it, but I watched it with my boys. They

thought it was funny. I thought it was really

well done. Any other thoughts on Looney Tunes'

show, Steve? Nope. My number four is the Looney

Tunes show One of the greatest things about this

show is The just the weird portrayals of of the

characters Like Lola. Oh my god. I want I wanted

to pull my teeth out after watching episodes

with Lola She is just so so strange of a character.

Why is she? She is that stalker creepy girlfriend

wannabe like she wants to be Bugs Bunny's, you

know wife type of thing It's just so weird That's

funny. Yeah I'm trying to remember which bunny

was the one that was introduced in Space Jam

low specifically to be a sexy bunny Lola Okay.

Yeah, cuz you know what? I watched this looney

tune in a couple episodes and I was like this

is really good and then I saw the Space Jam was

on TV and I said, you know boys come here Let's

watch the Space Jam. This is interesting. I got

about 15 minutes into it and said I can't watch

this crap. This is horrible I love space. This

is so bad. No, it was a vehicle for Michael Jordan

to play with Muppets or something But it was

just animation. Yeah, it was it was so awful.

I could not watch it. Anyways back Nobody else

would act with them So back to the Looney Tunes

show, what I absolutely love about this is, besides

all the different characterizations that they've

given the classic characters, the new voices

that they've gotten for the gophers, the gophers

are Rob Paulson and Maurice LaMarche. Oh, God.

What? No, no, I'm not saying that. I meant like,

you know, like if they couldn't have picked a

better pair to sit there and do that. I know.

Know I'm not really a fan of the 3d Effects that

they've given the the Roadrunner Wiley coyote

chases. Yeah, but overall I still love the show

Kevin what is your number three? I think and

again, I haven't seen anybody's list and I haven't

seen your list Mike But I guarantee you forgot

this one and it should be on your list my number

three hump number here is a One of the best incarnations

of this franchise in a long, long time, Scooby

-Doo Mystery Inc. This was a great version of

Scooby -Doo. It had some great references to

past good homages in there. There was one episode

that had quite a few classic characters show

up. Remember, Shaggy, we don't talk about Scrappy

-Doo. Thank God Scrappy hasn't been involved.

I blame Derek J. Wyatt, damn it. But no, Scooby

-Doo Mystery Inc. is really good stuff. It's

got a good visual design. It's just... I don't

know, it does justice to the old Scooby -Doo

and gets us away from some of the crappy versions

that involve scrappy... Like what's new, yeah.

So, Scooby -Doo Mystery Inc. number three. It

did not make my list, only because I have not

seen enough episodes of it. You forgot to admit

that. I've caught episodes here and there. I'm

waiting for season DVD sets is what I'm waiting

for so I can actually watch the whole season.

I would have got the season pass on iTunes, however

iTunes charges $50 for cartoon series season

passes for one season. That's way too expensive.

Especially when you want to have the DVD and

put it on the shelf or watch the commentaries

and things like that. I have I was actually I'm

interested in this show, but I'd never got a

chance to see it. It's it's very good It's one

of the it's probably the single best updating

of scooby -doo ever Because it it doesn't it's

not just individual mysteries. They're all tied

into one big storyline and it's just So far of

what I have seen it's it's just and it shows

it develops it actually shows like the families

of the characters Yeah, and goes into their history

a little bit each one of them and there's a little

more character development Like you said, there's

an overarching plot. So that's kind of cool And

it doesn't feature scrappy do as a main character.

That's the best part. Yes way we already mentioned

that I had read somewhere that Shaggy was dating

Velma. Yes Find that shocking I don't think that's

not something I like about it, but these are

two characters that I think should be like asexual

Well, I thought that was a given yeah, yeah,

that's been insinuated for the last 60 years

So wrong, oh my god, you know my number three

I I want to say This was kind of a toss up there.

I mean, I want to say like thundercats Because

I really like the thundercats show. I thought

they had a really good reboot I like the way

that they they handle it, you know, they didn't

do it the same way they did in the 80s They never

actually left Thundera Left their planet. So

you have access to all these great characters

and you don't have to worry about where they're

actually coming from It's like does everyone

get a rocket ship to this planet? How does this

happen? Well now you're you're kind of futzing

things here a little bit They never were on Thundera

in this new series Thundera is a kingdom and

city on third earth Okay, yeah Yeah, exactly

never left the soul third earth, but What I come

down to is in the in the in the 80s They left

their planet right and they went there and landed

up on third earth now here Yeah, exactly thunder

is a city or a country maybe maybe it's a kind

or a land mass or something and it's on third

earth, but yes, it's uh, it's interesting how

They're portraying it. I like the stories. I

like the the way that they are, you know progressing

the character so far and I can't wait to see

more Steve what is your number three? My number

three is GI Joe renegades Just because it's nice

to actually see them in a recurring Well, what

was a recurring show before Hub put it on the...

Basically, they put it on an indefinite hiatus

for the G .I. Joe movie coming out in the summer,

which is complete and utter bullshit. But yeah,

I would have much rather seen this show continue

than have this stupid movie, but... Hey, the

movie trailer was pretty awesome. I'll give them

that. The movie trailer rocks. The second film

does look like it's going to be better than the

first one. I never thought I would utter these

words, but the rock casting is brilliant. And

Bruce Willis. Yes, those two castings are brilliant.

That's what made it for me. I think this is going

to be a good show. And Cobra Commander is going

to have a silver faceplate. Yeah, that that's

brownie points and I'm happy now, but um, they

did it for me But running apologize for canceling

renegades, you know, you know what? They're just

not coming out with the renegades toys though.

I'm seeing the figure They are I just see oh

and it's like with Transformers Prime. I mean

they They they jump they missed the gun there

of getting it out for the show But I just saw

the renegades toys today and then they looked

pretty cool Yeah, renegades toys are shelf warming

everywhere at this point this first show for

kids to watch to they don't have a show Yeah,

well, you know, I caught a couple of the episodes

last year when they first came out It was like

well, this is okay, but I could at that point.

I lost the hub I saw maybe two episodes and then

the hub went to a higher pay bracket So I couldn't

couldn't watch it. Yeah. Yeah They couldn't decide

whether or not I had to pay more or not to actually

see these By that time I lost interest, you know,

though that they do offer the hub Chan Website

offers full episodes. Yeah, it offers all 26

episodes of the first season on hubworld .com

Well, the only thing I was really interested

in seeing at the time was transformers prime

and that I got off the internets in high -res

Yes, because they're from Predacon Empire My

number three or no, wait. Yeah. Yeah my number

three. I forgot who was talking there My number

three is Phineas and Ferb this show continues

to do awesome things Not only did it have one

of the highest grossing television animation

films of the year It in a year which there was

none Wow, just number three. I'm kind of surprised

to be honest expected more but this show is for

all ages whether it's little kids whether it's

teenagers whether it's adults this show has humor

for everybody and it is just so so awesome so

Kevin what is your number two my number two is

The visual design of this show is absolutely

gorgeous. Something very few shows get right

these days, the design style and the animation

style, and Thundercats nailed it. The voice acting,

although there are a few in which I like the

old classic voice actors better, I gotta give

them props. Matthew Mercer as Tigra is awesome,

and Emanuel The chick that plays Chitara. Yeah,

Emanuel Chickery or whatever. Not only is freaking

gorgeous, but she is a thousand times better

than Lynn Lipton. Let's not go there. Wiley Cat

and Wiley Cat are better. She's gorgeous? Wait,

we gotta go back here. Who is this girl? Emanuel

Chickery. I don't know how to say her name. The

actress that voices Chitara. I'll send you a

link here in a little bit. And then the guest

voices and the recurring voices, you have Clancy

Brown, Dee Bradley Baker, Corey Burton. You have

Gray DeLisle, Tara Strong, Chris Summer, James

Arnold Taylor, Rob Paulson. I mean, it's Hector

Elizondo. I mean, they're great guest voices.

The storylines are great. I love what they've

done so far. I can't wait to see season two and

what happens between Lionel and Tyger. But the

flashbacks are cool, showing Claudus and Jaga

and even showing the old Thundercats and the

old Mumrah in a different version. You know,

in the cameos with the tiger sharks and for Silverhawks

is really cool. I can't say enough good stuff

about this show. So that is my number two Thundercats.

For number two, well, this is kind of this was

my toss -up here. I mean I I like Transformers

Prime And I hate to say it I almost didn't want

to give this a number two because I kind of I

I looked forward to seeing thundercats Every

week. I didn't so much look forward to seeing

Transformers Prime. I would download the episodes

and they would set on my hard drive for weeks

until I got around to watching it. Last femur!

I know, I know, but again, I think I had issues

with the storyline. It just wasn't going in a

direction that I could keep up with or, you know,

maybe I'm just lame. A ladder. Thanks. I'm crippled.

I don't know. I mean, I think we've had this

discussion before on different podcasts. Exactly.

Never happened. But no, I'm not happy with some

of the characterizations. I'm not happy with

some of the animation style. I mean, I'm not

a big fan of Bayformers, and I'm seeing a continuation

of the Bayformer style here, even if it's dumbed

down. They have faces, though. Yeah, I suppose.

And colors. Does Bumblebee have a mouth? No.

Not really. Does Prime have a nose? No, not really.

Yeah, it's not so much of a face. Well, most

people have more faces than they did in the movies,

at least. Yeah, well, kinda. You know, his head

isn't a star. At least they don't look like just

mashed up pieces of metal. Well, again, some

of these are good. I want to say like Starscream.

I like the way they made Starscream. Soundwave

is awesome looking. Soundwave? You know, Soundwave

is not supposed to be a jet. I like Soundwave

as a jet. I think he looks cool. I just like

his face. Yeah, for someone who never speaks,

that's a really cool face. And he's kind of got

that techno viper thing going where it goes across

his visor, everything goes fine. That's kind

of cool. But, you know, I mean, there's some

things that I like about the characters and then

some things that I don't. You know, again, there's

too much Bayformer here. I want a Bumblebee that

speaks, okay? Yeah. I don't mind. They keep saying

that. They both will speak, though. They continue

to say that Bumblebee and Soundwave will both

speak. Eventually some way shouldn't I so like

that the last episode I saw where black arachnid

says I'm assuming control and I'm thinking Starscream

should be here for this She says I am assuming

control Soundwave walks right up to her. It doesn't

say a word beats the shit out of her Yeah, doesn't

even say ah, you know, it's in fact, I think

it was the Dead end I think his name dead dead

ends like oh, no, she did. Oh, yeah knocked out

knocked out like all Yeah, I mean he said it

for his it's like, you know, he just saw him

wave He cannot speak so I speak for him. You

gotta watch out for the quiet ones Exactly, but

it was I mean that I thought that was a cool

scene Uh, there were some cool scenes, you know

with megatron megatron is really interesting

in this He doesn't he he seems to me to be more.

I like the g1 megatron than some of the More

interesting incarnations of megatron that we

can mention but I don't know. I want to be behind

this show. I really do. At least the humans aren't

as annoying as they have been in past shows.

These are by far the best humans in Transformers

cartoon history. Well, besides G1. Well, G1 had

its flaws too. I'd rather have these humans than

G1 humans, to be honest. You don't like the Witwickies?

I like Spike, but... Chip Chase? Come on now.

No, I'm not a big fan of Chip Chase. Yeah, I

like the punk rock girl. I like the punk rock

girl. I like the fact that bulkhead is listening

to heavy metal I dig that You know think it's

like with the one episode where he loses his

mind and they have to revive him and she plays

some heavy metal music and he goes Yeah, you

know that I thought was cool. I mean, I like

that. It's I didn't like the episode Because

it's like, god damn, how many times am I going

to do this? But at the end, when she revives

him with heavy metal, it was kind of like, you're

going to rock! But no, I just can't get behind

the series as much as I would like to. I really

want to be behind this. I really want to be on

board. I just can't do it. You will be assimilated

soon enough. Well, I mean, if season two comes

along, they get their shit together, maybe we'll

see it, you know? At this point, I can't even

see myself buying the toys. Because it's like

oh no, the toys are awesome. I mean I'm not buying

the toys, but the toys look great Do I need another

movie prime? This is movie prime without the

flames? You know, I'm just not that interested

Soundwave I could see it maybe RC. Yeah, I got

enough Motorcycle females from the movie, you

know, they don't have legs, but you know same

damn thing. I Don't know. Maybe I hate to be

the party pooper. Everyone else will get black

right now It's gonna be, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry,

Air Ragnos, excuse me. Air Ragnos. Oh, I did

say Black Ragnos, didn't I? Shit. I will go out

and say it. Where's Black Ragnos? She's a spider.

Check. What the hell? Yeah, I mean, I just can't

get behind it. Sadly, sadly, we did get, we just

recently moved to AT &T U -verse and we do get

the hub now. And we are watching a lot more HUB

than we are at Disney at this point. So yeah,

I've been watching a lot of My Little Pony in

the morning. Because the boys are watching that.

And honestly, My Little Pony might be more well

-written in some of these Transformer Prime episodes.

It's kind of sad to admit, but yeah. Steve, what

is your number two? Young Justice. Oh, yeah,

was that this year or last year? It was last

year, but it started last year, but it's still

going so yeah, it's still going You know, I haven't

seen any new episodes from that, but I'd like

to it was a good show Um, yeah, so I liked Young

Justice and the animation style that they had

for it the voice acting I like the fact that

it's going from the junior partners the sidekicks

perspective They are not sidekicks. Well, instead

of focusing on the primary heroes that every

show takes on, it's in the same vein in a sense

of Team Titans, except it's not lame like Team

Titans. The only similarity is it's the sidekicks,

the junior Justice League. Yeah. But yeah, I

like that they're doing that. It's a nice take

on it. Yes. And it's dark as hell. Oh yeah. Oh

yeah. It's very dark. So my number two is, surprise

surprise, Thundercats. I already knew what your

whole list was. No you didn't. Guess what his

number one is. Shut up. Thundercats. is awesome

at first it took me a couple episodes to get

used to the animation style but the animation

style that they're using on thundercats is a

little bit anime but it's like western anime

it's not japan anime so it'll have big teardrops

over their foreheads or anything thank god for

that no power up sequences There are God here

we go There are a couple episodes in in the current

season because I don't know if they're just on

a on a break Or if they actually did end the

season at episode 13 I've heard that the first

season was supposed to be 26 episodes So I think

the problem with Thundercats is not so much with

the show. It's with Cartoon Network's handling

of it That could be said for a lot of Cartoon

Network shows. Right, but they had like seven

episodes and then they went on a six -week hiatus.

They had two more episodes, then they went on

a three -week hiatus, and then they finished

it out for three weeks. But overall, Thundercats

is really great. There's a couple episodes where

I'm like, can we just get to finding Mumrah already,

or can we just get to finding whatever artifact

you have to find? I mean... How many times do

you have to kill it with paper before it's done

right? That was a good episode. I hated that

episode. Have you ever seen read or die out of

Japan? The paper benders? Oh, that's a good series.

Yeah, I really liked the paper magic guy, the

paper magic people. I thought that was cool.

That was dumb. Yeah, I liked it. Good stuff.

So huge drum roll to go here. Kevin, what is

your number one? My number one has already been

mentioned, but I'll mention it again. I don't

know what it is exactly, but I just freaking

loved this show way more than I thought I would

and that is GI Joe Renegades. You know, there's

certain shows that people say, you know, you

just have to get by the design or the style or

the look and then you'll find some really good

stuff underneath that and I'm always lied to.

Fuck you. This one, I am telling you the God's

on its truth. If you can get past the look of

this show, you will find an amazingly written

show. The only bad part about G .I. Joe Renegades

is the look. You get used to it though. You get

used to it. You get past it. It has absolutely

phenomenal voice cast. And it's just such a cool

thing to see. what has never been done in the

GI Joe franchise, unless it was done in comic

format, I don't read comics, but to see the backstory

of the Joes and to see how certain, like you

get to see how Destro got his mask, you get to

see how Major Blood got his eye patch, you get

to see how Zartan, and it's just done so freaking

well. If it doesn't get a chance to come back,

it is a freaking crime. I will say that it did

do a good job of protecting itself in case it

didn't get to come back by giving us a whole

beginning, middle, and end. And it was a awesome

full circle moment because, and this is just

the ultimate tribute, the last episode of GI

Joe Renegades that we got brought us to the first

episode of GI Joe, a real American hero. Yeah,

and the the way that they did that was just like

genius the way they wrote that The fact that

it ties into the original, you know 1980s GI

Joe right into that would be it's just cool And

it would be really cool to see their take on

how the rest of the Joe's You know come come

into the group and get some actual GI Joe Cobra

action With everybody knowing that Cobra is bad

The other great thing about this show was all

the cameos of other Joe characters You seen wild

bill in a couple of episodes seen shipwreck They

had so many people just come in for one episode

firefly snow job Frostbite, you know, there was

just so many heavy duty They even brought in

Michael Bell and BJ Ward the original GI Joe

voices to play Duke's mom and dad Cool. And that

was just cool. And like I said, great voice cast,

great stories, great back stories. You just have

to get by the look of the show, which seems a

little simple. But to me, this was the best written

show of the year. I'm done. Cool, I wish I had

seen more of those I really do because like I

said some place it down and watch them all through

the whole thing and see the the progression of

oh And I can't go without saying Charlie had

their geniuses Cobra commander Mmm, so that's

all I got on that. Oh well I said that's all

I have to say on that. Nika Futterman sucked

as Lady J. That's the only other bad thing about

it. I like her as an actress. Nika Futterman

or whatever. She does a lot of on -screen stuff,

but her voice as Lady J was terrible. But anyway.

And Cobra Commander's face sucks balls. Yeah,

that is one little drawback, but that goes back

to the whole style and the design part of it.

I thought it looked good. What is your number

one? My number one would be Phineas and Ferb

And again, I was wondering why it wasn't higher

up on your list because I know you love this

show, too Yeah, but I just really like this show.

We've done several podcasts solely on this show

you know, I like to say that we watch way too

much Disney Channel and probably 75 % of what

we watch on Disney Channel is Phineas and Ferb

And sometimes not even because we want to you

know I mean it's just because it now that Disney

knows that it's their cash cow They're they're

really they ramped up the merchandising. They're

they're showing it Literally six or seven hours

a day on each of their channels Yeah, I mean

it's a good show it really I don't mind watching

the reruns we went back on Netflix and streamed

I Want to say all of season one and two Yeah,

well the boys and I just watched it for two days

straight. It was great I mean, I just really

like this show. There's there is there isn't

anything not to like about it personally, I think

Maybe it would be better if it had a stronger

voice cast because like we Kevin talked about

thundercats earlier know what a great voice cast

they have Everyone that you would want to hear

on a cartoon is popped up there, you know But,

no, I just really, I don't know, I really like

this show. It just speaks to me. I'll watch it

over and over and over again and have no problem

with it. And I like watching it with my boys.

They really enjoy it. I mean, the first time

we saw Aiden say, my show, you know, he might

have been, what, three? Yeah. Yeah. So yeah,

I mean, two and a half years later, we're still

watching it. It hasn't gotten old. no it hasn't

at all it's such an awesome awesome show and

it has been picked up for a fourth season so

can't wait to see what's what's gonna happen

in the fourth season for that very very awesome

consistently well -written in fact there was

a there was an episode we were watching earlier

a couple days ago where doofenshmirtz who's the

bad guy or I don't want to call him a bad guy.

He's not really bad. He's Perry the Platypus'

nemesis. Yeah, there is no bad guy here. I mean,

he's trying to do evil, but he's not really evil

in the sense of... He's very unsuccessful at

being evil. He's very unsuccessful at being evil.

He's very unsuccessful at being evil. He's very

unsuccessful at being evil. He's very unsuccessful

at being evil. He's very unsuccessful at being

evil. He's very unsuccessful at being evil. He's

very unsuccessful at being evil. He's very unsuccessful

at being evil. He's very unsuccessful at being

evil. He's very unsuccessful at being evil. He's

very unsuccessful at being evil. He's very unsuccessful

at being evil. He's very unsuccessful at being

evil. He's very unsuccessful at being evil. He's

very unsuccessful at being evil. He's very unsuccessful

at being evil. He's very unsuccessful at being

evil. He's very successful at being evil. He's

very successful at being evil. He's very successful

at He's watching this TV show because I guess

his cable messed up, so all he gets is the Mexican

network, the Spanish -speaking channel. Oh yeah,

I remember this. And he's like, it's like, you

know, Miamor something. And he's like, I really

like this show and I don't really understand

what they're saying, but they've merged three

different storylines together. It's genius. And

the funny thing is that particular episode was

in the process of merging three different storylines

together and this is three different storylines

merging together and Successfully, you know each

one successfully rounding out on a 15 minute

show. I Mean the writing here is genius. This

is just crazy insane stuff Yeah, it is and in

that episode had that wasn't that the episode

with the football x7 Stadium They think that

was I don't I know not that no there was for

soccer involved. There was a Yeah, there's a

soccer game on that was and because the soccer

game was on You know all the Spanish -speaking

people watching the soccer game instead of his

soap opera. So it was preemptive So he was actually

making it rain. He had this giant Yeah, the rain

had this giant shower head that went straight

up in the air and kind of dumped water into the

clouds and was causing it to rain on this stadium.

Giant shower head that turned into a golf club.

Oh, that's right. It did. It came over and knocked

their their giant golf ball. Yeah. Yeah, that

was the third storyline. No, that's okay. No.

No, it wasn't they didn't build a stadium. They

built. Yeah, it wasn't the stadium It was the

the holographic projection thing the yeah, it

was like they were on fire side girls with their

patches Exactly. So yeah, so they were inside

but at the same time you had Jeremy and Candice

who were not involved with Phineas and fur But

they were doing their own thing. They were having

a date inside the same habitat. Yeah And yeah,

there was a there was actually a yeah, there

was actually a song in there, too So, I mean,

you've got three storylines, three completely

separate storylines, a joke about... At least

two songs. Yeah, two songs, a joke about the

storyline, all wrapped up in a show that was

over in 15 minutes. Yeah. I honestly don't see

how they do this. It's really impressive. Yeah,

it is. It's very impressive. Steve, what is your

number one? Where's prime? Oh. Nuff said there.

Okay. So you know, if Prime had Swampy Marsh

writing for them... Oh god, Michael, can you

imagine Major Monogram's voice coming out of

Megatron's animation? Maybe not him, but I can

see it as like Ratchet. It gets a little bit

closer to Corey Burton there. Yeah, what about

Prime makes it your number one, Steve? Everything.

Okay. Well, my number one, lo and behold, is

Transformers Prime. That shows crap. Shut up.

Unlike Kevin, I will agree that there are some

filler episodes in season one, but even the filler

episodes have one or two moments that tie it

into the entire season one storyline. And I will

agree with Michael. Optimus Prime not having

a nose makes it look stupid I have always been

of the opinion. I don't care if they want to

have the faces emote Optimus Prime should always

be face plated end of fucking story Someone in

your neighborhood is being robbed and or burned

alive. Yeah, that was an ambulance or it is an

ambulance Next door to you, no less. Wow. Yeah,

it's bad. Okay, so one of the greatest things

about this show is for the first time in nearly

30 years, Peter Cullen and Frank Welker are working

together again, consistently. I'm sure that they've

worked on projects with each other within that

time period, but this is the first time that

they've both been back on a Transformers property.

And everybody was like, when everybody heard

the news about Frank, they were like, oh, no,

it's going to be the G one gravelly Megatron

voice and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We're

not going to like it. It's so not because that

that G one Megatron voice Frank does in a higher

register, whereas this Megatron, the prime Megatron,

he does lower. So it's less strain on his vocal

cords. And it is so awesome. It does sound it

sounds. really good. It's a good Megatron voice.

He's got a lot of range. It's not gravelly, but

I don't think his vocal cords could handle that

at his age. No. His... and that's why he went

and changed it. It sounds enough like... But

it still sounds good. Right. It still sounds

enough like the G1 voice, but it's not the G1

voice. It is its own entity in this show. I love...

As much as I'm not a huge fan of Starscream simply

because of all the fangirls that fawn all over

that seeker It's crazy. I love Steve bloom is

Starscream Steve bloom is the number two voice

of Starscream second only to Chris Lada It's

just awesome how he does his inflections with

that Personally, I this is all gonna get edited

out anyway, cuz I can't have Mike not talk about

his show but Personally, I really like Tom Kenny

a Starscream and transformers animated not to

say, you know, Steve blue isn't good But hey,

come on. I gotta give Tom Kenny is do but no

I don't have a problem at all with the voice

casting on this show I think the voice casting

was great. I really like Who the hell's reanimator

um You know ratchet Jeffrey combs Jeffrey combs.

Damn it. Yeah, I know this guy. Yes. Yeah. No,

I really yeah the quite he was the question I

really well before that he was a reanimator right?

Back in the day, but no, I really like Jeffrey

combs. I really like I just like the voice Direction

here. I don't have a problem with that. I You

know, I'm just not as happy with some of the

other aspects of the show For me, I like it all

so far at this point. I can't wait like You want

to talk about a season cliffhanger? this season

cliffhanger was just jaw -dropping for me I do

like how all the cartoons these days seem to

be giving homage to the original voice cast.

You know, Larry Kenny on Thundercats, Michael

Bell and B .J. Warden and J .I. Joe, Welker and

Cullen here, Paulson and the new Turtles coming

out this year, next year. I like that they're

finally realizing that the old classic voices

are in some times, in some cases, the best. Right.

Yeah. So that's going to do it for the cartoons.

We're going to move on to the top five video

games. Think this is probably just gonna be me

Michael and Steve because I have things I want

to talk about, huh? I have things I have a list.

Oh, okay Well, I should go first because it's

not a numbered list. Okay. Well, what are your

picks for the way? I made this list is the my

top five games III well, it's not top five, but

I made my game list pretending I had a system

with two games that I'd be buying because I refused

to buy a system and start getting into video

games again because I was the biggest video game,

I was a video game nerd before video game nerds

were cool. Commodore 64 and television, Pong,

IBM. Atari 2600, Adventure, you were in that!

You were like this once I got to college I stopped

it because I knew it was taken away from my productivity

But if I had owned these systems, I would have

definitely been interested obviously in the typical

sports show games like MLB 11 the show of Madden

2011 WWE all -stars, but I would have found it

interesting to try out Mortal Kombat the new

one Star Wars Old Republic the Old Republic or

whatever it is. I definitely would be all about

that game They've released a couple new Zelda

and Sonic games that I'd be out for Call of Duty

Modern Warfare 3 and I would definitely be all

over it probably would be my favorite game of

the year if I had played it. GoldenEye 007 Reloaded.

So those would be the games I would be interested

in if I was playing video games these days. You

know I played the RPG versions of Knights of

the Old Republic 1 and 2 and I really enjoyed

those again as an RPG but couldn't get on board

or at least I haven't gotten on board yet for

the new one because it's a one of those massively

multiplayer online role it's a massively multiplayer

game and I know you can you can I think you can

play by yourself but it's just not the same I

don't think you're gonna be able to get through

it's kind of like World of Warcraft where the

certain areas you're just not gonna be able to

do by yourself you have to hit parties together

and I I just don't want to do that. I don't want

to get in a situation where I'm paying $19 .99

a month to play a game. That makes sense. Exactly.

Alright, so Michael, what is your number five

for games? My number five is... And this is sad

because I just haven't played a lot of games

lately. When I do play games, it's always on

the PC and I always play them for a long period

of time. I'll buy a big game and just play the

hell out of it. Like especially like role -playing

games like I mentioned but Something small that

I can get out of the way quietly during meetings

like number five angry birds Yeah, and it's weird

I I didn't believe the hype about angry birds

everyone's like oh I'm playing angry birds and

it's addictive and I'm thinking, you know, it's

another one of those You know throw the penguin

type games, you know how far can the penguin

fly? You know, and he bounces and he skips that

he hits a bomb and flies farther and it's like

his old flash based games you find on websites

and yeah, and I thought you know, this is dumb

Why would why would anybody play this and a buddy

of mine? It's like no, seriously got a download.

You got to try it and I downloaded it and for

the iPhone there is no You know, you can't get

the full version for free you can get the light

version And you can play. You have to pay for

the full version. Well, it's like 99 cents for

the full version, but I'm cheap. I'm not going

to pay 99 cents to watch the penguin fly. Right.

So but no, I started playing that and it was

addictive. And it's like, wow, I got one star

out of three. I bet I could get three. And I

just kept playing the damn thing. And I played

it until I got all, I think, like 20 screens

that you get for the free version. on the iphone

but i i played all of them for till three stars

and then there's another one called like angry

birds seasons and then there's seasonal for seasonal

screens and i played all of those and then there's

angry birds rio rio and i played all of those

and and arguably you know some of the seasons

ones are really really hard oh yes they are yeah

and some of the real ones are are kind of difficult

but i still got you know three stars on all those

but the It is it's addictive. It really is I

Don't want to say it's like a time suck I've

never sat down and played Angry Birds for four

hours in a row like I will some of these other

games I'll usually play Angry Birds when I'm

watching TV, honestly, really like well like

like, you know Okay, perfect example. We've mentioned

this several times throughout this episode watching

Disney Channel if there's an episode of like

Jesse or so random or whatever I'll have that

on his background noise and I'll be sitting there

focusing on a I won't focus on the TV but I'll

focus on the game I'll focus on Angry Birds while

that's playing in the background I look up okay

Angry Birds again Angry Birds yes I'll play Angry

Birds for maybe five Ten minutes at a time tops

and then I'll put it away and go do something

else, you know I can play it for about 30 to

45 minutes Wow Yeah, I see I've usually got a

board beat three stars within you know 10 15

minutes and well because I play off all three

of the different games though I don't just stick

with one version of like all the ones you mentioned

Rio seasons and the original I play all three

of them. So oh, yeah No, I I played all the way

through one then went to the next and then played

all through that went to the next and it's uh

it's like i really like more angry birds but

i'm just not willing to pay 99 cents again steve

what is your number five steve five yes okay

mine is spider -man edge of time oh interesting

that was a good one yes i know i didn't play

it but i saw a lot of video there was a large

marketing presence on this game it's pretty good

but uh it's it's not my favorite out of the spider

-man games i have another one that i think trumps

it um dimensions yeah um but the only thing i

don't like about it is there's a timed level

uh yeah and in towards the beginning And because

you're the original Spider -Man and then you're

the 2099 throughout the game You're trying to

save the 2099's life by destroying this robot

in the past that's actually killing him in the

future and You have like two minutes to destroy

every limb But you're also getting shot at and

have to defeat the guys so you don't get shot

down so it's damn near impossible i hate those

so i i was like to hell with this and i threw

the game to the side but i'm sure it didn't help

i was playing it on the wii with you know the

shitty controllers but yeah okay um it's a nice

thing about the pc versions of games is you can

usually download a trainer or something that

will let you cheat so you turn off the timer

invincible something like that i can't die I've

done that like, well, not so much that you can't

die with it. The timer's turned off. I mean,

you may get killed by the guys trying to keep

you from blowing up the bad guy's leg, but you

don't have two minutes to blow up the bad guy's

leg. You have as much time as you need. Yeah.

But you have to destroy every limb, which is

the fucked up part. But yeah, that'd be my fifth,

my number five game. Once you get started on

the arms. after blowing up both legs, then you

get defeated. That's like, God damn it. Now I

got it all over again. Yep. My number five is

DC Universe Online. I had been waiting and waiting.

I actually conversed with the people that were

working on this game through MySpace back in

2006. I've been waiting for this game forever.

I'm not a multiplayer game player at all. I do

the single player modes. And the first couple

tries of this, I said, screw it, I'm done. I

reinstalled it and I tried on the Superman side

starting in Metropolis and I liked it a little

bit better, but it's just too frustrating for

me. Do you not like, are you playing with other

people? I mean, it's supposed to be massive in

multiplayer. No, no, no. I mean, I realize it's

free so you could still. Do the massively multiplayer?

Yeah, no, I don't do the multiplayer crap. Okay

Michael what is your number four? Number four

is probably another Well, it is another mobile

game I don't know how familiar you guys are with

a little movie by Sam Raimi called army of darkness

I've heard of it, but I don't think I've ever

seen it God, you suck. No, seriously, you're

all supposed to chime in and go, that movie's

awesome! Anyway, yeah, hand over your geek card,

seriously. By now, you should have seen every

Bruce Campbell movie 15 times over. Army of Darkness,

again, it's a classic. It's a continuation of

The Evil Dead 2. It should say it's the third

of the Evil Dead trilogy. But the game I'm referring

to is Army of Darkness Tower Defense. It's a

free game that you can get on the iPhone. If

you're familiar with Tower Defense? Kind of?

Maybe? No. Tower Defense games are a genre in

and of themselves where basically you set up

defenses between an entrance and an exit. And

bad guys come in the entrance and they leave

out the exit. Your job is to make sure they don't

leave. However many get out the exit, I guess

you get so many tries before you die. And you

keep building up your defenses, level after level,

making sure that they don't get out. And this

game is kind of the same. And that, you know,

there's a straight shot. They come in through

the front gate of the castle, and if they reach

the end of the castle, which is where the Necronomicon

lies, then you lose. Or if you die before they

get to the Necronomicon, you lose. And as you

kill more guys, you score more points and get

more gold. As you get more gold, you can build

more defenses. Yeah, but the cool thing about

this game is that there's tower defense. I mean,

a lot of people like tower defense in and of

itself, but... The cool thing about this game

is it's chock full of Army of Darkness references.

There's a lot of sound clips here. The humor

from the movies shines through in the game. They

clearly put a lot of thought and planning into

this. I believe the studio that built it is the

same one that built Angry Birds. Rovio? Yeah,

but just a really, really good game. But I played

that I mean that was another one of those where

I would steal away and play it for five or ten

minutes at a time and some of the later later

levels Are literally, you know 20 minutes long.

Yeah yeah and they're they're hard at first it's

like there's no challenge here then why am i

even bothering with this and by the time you

get to like level 50 it's my god i'm never gonna

get this i'm never gonna get the evil ash to

nestle in necronomicon again but but no i mean

if you have an iphone uh it's free run out and

get it right now you'll love it steve what is

your number four my number four is Spider -Man

Shattered Dimensions. I got this for the Xbox

360. I like the fact that you get to play as

four different Spider -Men from different time

periods. And you have the various voices that

have, or actors who have voiced Spider -Man over

the years. Which was quite nice to hear those

in there. You get to fight is the 2099 the amazing

spider -man the noir spider -man Which I hate

his levels with a passion What's that that play

style the whole you know sneaking around in the

dark and not being caught type play style I dig

that it's actually more difficult than what you'd

think especially when you get to the bosses Because

Hammerhead was a boss that in that one. Yeah,

he was a bitch Both times but um Cuz you gotta

fight him as a mid boss and then again at the

end so but um and then you get to fight as the

venom spider -man, but Yeah, I just I love how

the game plays Granted I'm not as far as my wife

is currently at the game because one day she

just decided to sit down and play it And, yeah,

I was too busy playing Arkham City, so... Oh,

you have that on two separate consoles? What?

The Arkham City and Spider -Man. No, they're

both on the 360. Oh, so you can't play them at

the same time? No. Oh, see now, yeah, Chrissy

and I game together, you know? She would play

Spider -Man while I'm at work, or if she was

stuck, she'd be like, uh, here you go. Yeah,

and then I'd beat the boss and then she'd go

on with the rest of it. Yeah My my number four

is a game that I've only seen video of because

as I've said before I Three of these I've only

seen video of two of them. I've actually played

Uncharted 3 It looks so amazing. I would love

to play that. I don't know if it's out for PC

I'm not gonna look it up at this point in time,

but it looks so great it does look very pretty

yeah it looks awesome uh michael what is your

number three uh number three was mass effect

three is that out yet i'm sorry mass effect two

no it's not out yet i'm a dumb ass i wish mass

effect three were out because from what i've

read mass effect three corrects all the problems

that mass effect two had and the problems with

Mass Effect 2 related directly to the fact that

it wasn't Mass Effect 1. Yeah, they really dumbed

down Mass Effect 2. They took out a lot of the

RPG elements. They just really... I don't want

to say they ruined it, because I still play the

game. But whereas the first Mass Effect gave

you a lot of options on how to outfit your characters,

Where you went in the galaxy there was a lot

more to do, you know, there's a lot more open

-ended to this and to do this to the game Whereas

Mass Effect 2 Very linear very here's where you

start. This is where you went. Don't even try

to explore it was it was annoying in that sense

and It's like I couldn't change the armor for

my guys part of the first game was finding new

armor getting new stuff leveling up this game

not so much it's it's uh the best you can do

is change the color of their armor and you only

get two choices for each guy black or white well

no actually it's more like they're like brown

they can either have white and black or brown

and orange which is like their their team colors

yeah and i just don't know I play the game because

I really really liked Mass Effect 1 and because

of this game is the reason why I didn't play

the sequel to Dragon Age I really enjoyed the

first Dragon Age game but I heard that you know

through through reviews and such that they dumbed

down the second Dragon Age the same way they

dumbed down the second Mass Effect because it's

the same studio that makes the game yeah so I

didn't even bother with the second Dragon Age

I wanted to play it I just Couldn't bring myself

to do it because I hated Mass Effect 2 so much.

So why is Mass Effect 2 number 3? Because again,

like I said, I only play a few games a year and

You know, I'll play them for a long time I'll

play them until I'm just done playing them and

this is the third game that I played that year

Yeah, so yeah, not my favorite game, but I played

it Steve what is your number three my number

three? is back to the future of the game. I have

yet to get a hold of that. How is that? I liked

it. I mean, it's it's a little bit of kind of

you got to run around town, kind of, you know,

click on various things, kind of. It's almost

like a solve a mystery type thing. What's the

genre though? What type of game is it? It's a

point and click game. It's a point and click.

but it's got some graphical elements and then

there's points where you gotta click and make

them do certain things like for instance one

level you gotta make somebody leave the room

and then you gotta search something real quick

but you gotta know what you're going after or

you know or quick enough or you get caught or

you know just that kind of stuff so but it was

pretty neat from what I did play awesome My number

three this is probably something Kevin's gonna

be able to chime in on from what he's seen of

it again This is I've only seen video of this,

but it looks awesome Call of Duty Modern Warfare

3 I've actually beat this game. Oh, you've played

it. Okay. I wasn't sure my roommate bought it

and the First of all, the visual on this game

is amazing. The graphics are incredible. I was

a little disappointed that we literally, he bought

it because, you know, he thought it was something

we could play together or whatnot. He was trying

to get me into it. And we started the campaign,

which we were just trading off like when someone

dies, it basically picks you up exactly right

there. So when one person died, we'd hand off

the controller and then I'd play it. And if I

died, I'd hand it off. But we did it that way

and we literally beat the entire game in like

less than six hours. And I was like, what? It's

over? Oh. Yeah, the the plot line of the story

from what I've heard from Mike the Birdman Dot

is the outcome is not very satisfying. Well,

it's just not satisfying because it doesn't take

long enough. Like it's intense. You feel like

you're in it. You're getting to know all the

people you are because you play as both, you

know, American and Russian individuals. And you

kind of switch back and forth before the storyline.

And just as you're getting into the storyline

and learning the people, it's like game over.

You've beat it. And it's like, wait a second.

And this is one reason why I can't play the video

games is because then we tried to play the online,

just play against a million different people

and kill everybody. And that was the most not

fun experience I've ever had in my life. Like

it's impossible to play against people online

unless you somehow like get to the level that

they are as far as like a There's like a status

number or like a level number I sound like an

idiot because I don't know what I'm talking about.

But The higher the number you are the more weapons

you get to have you can hold two weapons at once

and all this stuff So you can't even compete

with the people like you literally die every

time you respond. Yeah You end up getting blown

up with a rocket launcher far more often than

you'd like until you get to the point where you

can hold your own rocket launcher. And by then

everyone else is that much more powerful than

you are. And I'm not willing to take that time.

I had the same thing with Bioshock 2 when I played

online. And the same thing, they would grant

you levels the more kills you got. And the more

levels you got, the more accessories you could

have or the more weapons. you don't even see

where you're getting killed from like it shows

you a and actually every time you die it shows

you a replay of how you died and it's like where

did that person come from we bought the game

we played it for six hours beat it and it has

sat on the shelf since Yeah, so the 13 year old

who plays the game night and day who knows the

map inside and out is whipping your ass because

I don't have the time to dedicate to be good

at this. One of the things I loved about Modern

Warfare 3 of seeing video of it, it had one of

the best ad campaigns of the year. uh... every

commercial i would see it's it's the veteran

that brings in they you know they show an actual

you know actual actor being the veteran they

show a newbie spawning in and the newbie eventually

called the becomes you know a veteran self and

i i just thought that was such a cool ad campaign

that was the one with the uh... uh... also named

david bell From Stargate universe. There's some

very cool parts of the game though There's some

parts where like you're in an airplane and all

sudden like a window gets blown out our door

gets blown out in it And you're literally slow

motion like going through the air But you can

still shoot people as you're kind of flipping

around like you see in the movies It's there's

some cool cool as parts you're underwater sometimes

you're you know, there's very cool parts But

like I said, it just wasn't long enough. Yeah,

right Michael what is your number two? My number

two will be portal to portal three. No kidding

portal to portal to Had a similar issue with

I should say a similar issue to the modern warfare

in that it was only six hours long Well, you

know six six somewhere around there was it was

it's just a short game But there's a lot of humor

There's a lot of story. It's a really funny,

funny game. And it makes you think. It didn't

make me think, I don't want to say as much as

the first game, but the first game was only four

hours long. But again, really funny and really

cute. But the second game returns you to Aperture

Labs. I won't say like 50 years after the original

game and and nature has overtaken it and You're

basically walking around and in the same areas

that you were in in the first game But they but

the you know, you had a better graphics engine.

Everything looks cleaner It's it's just amazing

and to look up and see like a hole in the ceiling

With the light shining through and the leaves

on the mall, you know the plants and everything

It's just a really really cool effect because

you've been here before Right. And they get into

the history of Aperture Labs and Cave Johnson

who is just an amazing, amazing personality.

He's the guy who founded and ran Aperture Labs

up until his death. He has his voice recorded.

Throughout the the the later levels so as you're

walking through you can hear him speaking and

he's like I'm sending all this down on tape so

that Future generations will be able to hear

my greatness, you know, just really really funny

stuff And I've put like online I've made references

to life gives you lemons and that's his whole

spiel You know when life gives you lemons don't

take lemonade, you know, you do You give them

lemons back and you demand to see life's manager

You tell them you're gonna take these lemons

back or I'm gonna burn your house down with the

lemons It's just really funny stuff. I guess

you had to be there. I don't really do it. Yeah

pretty much I'm gonna have my lab guys create

a combustible lemon and I'm gonna burn your house

down. Yeah, it's just It's it's again. You gotta

be in that in that context in the game, but just

really good really short It's longer than, you

know, it took me, let's say, twice as long to

beat Portal 2 than it was Portal 1. There's a

lot more story there. You learn more about Gladys,

who's the main antagonist, or was the main antagonist

in the first game, and that ends up being kind

of a sub -boss in this game. It won't give too

much away. But no, it's just, it's really funny.

It's really interesting. Again, I didn't think

as hard as I did. The first game because the

first game I was still getting my feet wet trying

to figure out how to how to make portals work

Thinking with portals as they call it. Yeah,

but this time around I breezed just breezed right

through it I didn't I didn't barely think at

all now There's a multiplayer version of the

game that allows you to play was as one of two

robots so each you can play with one other guy

basically online and The idea there is you've

got two ingress portals and two egress portals

going on at the same time. And so it's like,

hey, how cool would that be? How many times have

you wished you could have that? Multiplayer is

for people who aren't antisocial. That's my stance

on multiplayer. No, I like multiplayer. I like

Unreal Tournament multiplayer. I like Bioshock

2 multiplayer to a certain extent. Games where

I can get in and play with other people I enjoy

that but I did not play the multiplayer here

and basically I was afraid that I'd end up in

a room or playing a game with someone who had

already beaten all the levels and I would just

get a walkthrough and he would point and go put

one here put one there jump here here you know

and I just didn't want to do that and I get the

feeling that I might be missing out on some more

really truly funny moments and some more a storyline

that I would pick up from the multiplayer. Right.

Because the multiplayer picks up where the single

player game lets off. Okay. Yeah, so it's like,

well, I kind of feel like I'm not doing myself

any justice here, or I'm doing myself a grave

injustice for not playing the multiplayer. And

a lot of people tell me it's really good, but

I just haven't played it yet. I probably will

eventually. Eventually. Once I get done with

my number one game. Aha. Steve, what is your

number two? Two is DC Universe Online. Wow, you

like it a lot better than Mike. Yeah, well, he

bailed and uninstalled it and then after he...

We've been over this. Why is it your number two?

Anyways, I like it because you get to create

your own character. You get to have the freedom

to kind of just fly around and... Do whatever

mission you are at the correct level to do it

at I also like the fact that when you get high

enough level the people that were beating your

ass when you were on a lower level and killing

you on PvP And if you were playing PvP you can

go kick their ass back Because I did that the

other night But um But yeah, I just like how

that that whole environment works. Yes, it is

irritating at points playing the game, but it's

free. So unless you want to pay for the extra

stuff. So unless so I would say that it's at

least a good game to try out and doesn't cost

you nothing. Exactly. Before I get to my number

two, I have to. Make this statement I have been

playing Grand Theft Auto for for the number of

years now that has been my main shoot him up

first person shooter that type of style of game.

And our buddy, Spade of the Bolt Matrix, actually

gifted me on Steam Saints Row the third. This

is my first Saints Row game that I've played.

And even though it does have the generic Grand

Theft Auto style of, you know, go buy property,

go do these missions, go do those missions, this

game starts off with a bang because you're robbing

a bank and then you're going through a skydiving

mission and it is just awesome. I'm not too far

into the game right now. I think I'm up to like

the sixth mission or so But just seeing the world

seeing the graphics the game has and all the

different things you can do. It's very very awesome

so drumroll, please Michael what is your number

one? I used to be an adventurer like you, but

then I took an arrow to the knee What the hell

is this arrow to the knee thing? I used to blah

blah blah until I took an arrow to the knee!

You know, anyone who says that should take a

scrotum to the chin. Skyrim! Skyrim is my number

one. Uh, yeah, I've done nothing but play this

game for the last, what, three, four weeks? This

is, uh, yeah. Since it came out, pretty much.

Basically since it came out and I went out and

bought it immediately. I mean, I... Again, I

was mentioned that I play I'll get a game and

I'll play it until I can't play it anymore and

Years ago. I first played Morrowind Which was

Elder Scrolls 3 and just played as a death played

it for like six months straight and then they

kept releasing Add -on packs and then a couple

years back. I want to say 2009 Oblivion came

out and they had at least one expansion pack

for that the frozen frost and shivering aisles

and that was a Really really great game And again

played it for six months straight. It was just

just killed it this game It's in the same vein

It differs in some ways But it's still It's still

very open -ended. I mean literally you have a

continent that you can wander across and There's

maybe a thousand different Locations on this

continent that you can visit. Yeah, and almost

all of them have a quest tied to it There are

six or seven main towns and some of them are

big I have a castle some of them are smaller

and just it's just like a village But every one

of them has people who will say hey, can you

do something for me? You know or you know, even

if something small like, you know, I'm I'm a

farmer Can you go out in my field and harvest

wheat and bring it back to me? And I'll pay you

for each each, you know, I didn't bring back

There there is a main storyline, but you don't

even have to follow it Right. You can play the

main storyline or you can buy a house in town

and just do the blacksmith thing There are there

are people that start the game by going out and

hunting animals, getting their skin, harvesting

their hide, bringing it back to the blacksmith

shop, turning that hide in the leather, taking

the leather and creating leather armor, then

running up to the castle where the enchanter

lives, and then you enchant that armor with a

low level enchantment, take that armor back to

the blacksmith, sell it back to them, And that

increases your, you know, your hunting skills,

your armoring skills, your smithing skills, increases

your enchanting skills and your merchant skills.

So you're cranking up every, I mean, you can

do this, this cycle, you know, endlessly until

you've maxed out all of your stats. If you so

choose or you can wander around and just shoot

things and you know I've seen video of people

who just wander in town and start punching small

children You have that option you you don't have

to follow the main storyline You don't have to

follow any storyline for a long time there a

few weeks. I just wandered around the countryside

Going into bandit strongholds and clearing them

out. Yeah, I mean it's If anything the flaw here

is it doesn't give you enough direction Right,

it doesn't say you have to do this, you know,

and again as much as Steve hates the time limit

You know, there are no time limits here It's

like I would always be happier if they say you

have to do this Objective within two days Because

literally you can if you so chose you could rent

a room and sleep For weeks of time Use bed, you

know eight hours later use bed. Yeah, that's

it You actually get bonuses for sleeping unless

you're a werewolf in which case you don't get

bonuses for sleeping, but you can still sleep

Yeah, you can be a werewolf. You can be a vampire

You can you can play the game as a mage you can

play the game as an assassin You can you know

depends on what skills you chose to build up.

Yeah, it's just It's very, very diverse. There's

a lot to do here. There's a lot of different

ways to do it. I, like I said, I've been playing

the game nonstop, have not finished the main

storyline. There's like six different guilds

on the continent. I've only gotten to the top

of two of them. And at some point I'm going to,

you know, plug in my new computer and actually

play it with all the high res on. yeah, because

right now I'm playing everything at low res and

with no anti alias saying and just You know it

runs but yeah, but I mean, this is a beautiful

beautiful game. It's amazing. It's like true

to life it's kind of like you know that the The

video that you've seen the videos that you've

seen of uncharted. Yeah It's it's prettier than

that It's amazing because you can stand there

and look up at the at the peaks The snowy peaks

and you can see the snow Blowing in the wind

and off the peaks and around and kind of billowing,

right? Yeah, it looks real and even in in areas

that couldn't possibly be real it still so like

like, you know mountain fortresses built up the

side of a mountain and You know, it's just things

that couldn't possibly exist in the real world

Look real they look amazing and I haven't been

able to take advantage of that in the fullest

because my machine just isn't powerful enough.

Yes. I'm gonna go with my number one because

I know Steve is going to have more to say about

this so I'm gonna let him go last on this one.

My number one, again, I've been watching a video

walkthrough even though it's one of those cheesy

commentary video walkthroughs and the guy kind

of pisses me off when he's commenting during

like cutscenes when i'm not actually being able

to hear what the hell the people are saying uh...

but uh... batman arkham city is is is my number

one i love how the game looks i love how the

mechanics are i i don't think i'm gonna be able

to get this for the pc silly because the controls

on it are so all awkward i know i could get a

you know usb controller to fix that issue but

Yeah, I just prefer watching people play this

game because this game looks so freaking awesome.

How about that voice cast? Oh, yes Yes Kevin

Conroy and Mark Hamill reprise as Batman and

Joker Tara strong has taken over as Harley. She

does a decent Harley. I like it It's it's better

than some of the other people that have done

Harley outside of Arlene Sorkin Arlene Sorkin

will always be Harley Quinn, but Tara is a is

a close second So Steve, what is your number

one? Batman Arkham City Surprise surprise. He

actually played it so I watched it, I've seen

it, it's not like I've never seen the damn thing.

The story for it is freaking awesome. And I love

the fact that unlike Arkham Asylum, where in

Arkham Asylum you defeat the guys, they don't

come back. So once you beat the game, you're

done. Yeah. There's nothing more. In Arkham City...

That can't be canon though. What? Well, I mean

you make it sound like he's going to kill mr.

Freeze you can't you can't kill mr. Freeze Well,

no, but you you defeat him, but I'm saying like

in Arkham Asylum It's like you're it's almost

like a typical game where it's Arkham City Like

your your bosses stay pretty much where they

were like whatever you last saw them as that's

what they are but The guys that have guns or

the guys that are running around town Those guys

don't go away. They come back Yeah, you defeat

them they come back or they call reinforcements.

So I mean it's It's quite interesting to see

that that take on it I love the main storyline

and I love the fact that there's nine side plots

Wow and You you you go through the main sequence

fighting your regular bosses, but then they have

like the side the side games are what There the

side missions are what hints at the next game?

Like you have Arkham world well like you have

as real following Batman around and you have

to find the symbols and then That alludes to

you know him saying we will meet again soon,

and then you see you meet hush Who you know spoiler

alert? Looks like Bruce Wayne And then there's

a scarecrow part where you see orders for Dr.

Crane, and then you see various other things

out of building. You see Croc. So a lot of it's

foreshadowing a future game that they are not

going to confirm right now. But yeah, the whole

game's awesome. And then to add... More to it

you get to play in a side mission of Catwoman.

You get to download Extra missions you get the

bat or the Robin and Nightwing skins and you

get eight Batman skins Really? Yes. Yeah, including

a Batman Beyond I use the Batman Beyond skin

the animated series one and the Batman incorporated

more right? Yeah for five bucks you can download

all of them okay and you the batman incorporated

one's free but the other seven you get to you

pay five bucks and you get all of them that's

not bad and you can play with them they they

just released another code where you can play

with them from the start of the game instead

of actually having to beat it first which is

what i had to do yeah you've beaten it like four

different times now three times the second time

i crashed the save game Did you get all the riddler

symbols? No because and you can't and the riddler

no listen the riddler is the one of the bosses

in the side missions yeah you can't defeat him

or get a certain you have to get a certain amount

of riddler trophies or riddles answered in order

to get the next hostage or to get to him so you

have to get all 400 of them to get to 400 Yes,

yeah, there's a lot. You know, I keep seeing

like on webcomics, they'll allude to it or something

like Penny Arcade or David Willis' comic. They'll

allude to how difficult it is to get all of these.

I didn't realize there was 400. Yes, there's

400 and you have to have Catwoman to get a certain

percentage of them. Wow. If you try and pick

them up as Batman, it electrocutes you and then

you hear Riddler go, uh -uh -uh, that's not for

you. Yeah, and it's just you know There's some

of them that they're so insanely impossible to

get Yeah, like I've been sitting there trying

to figure them out, and I'm like I and I have

the strategy guy And I'm like I still don't fucking

have a clue, so I just I gave up. I'm like I'll

call it good Yeah, been there. Yeah, I've defeated

the rest of it, so I mean that's that that counts

for something game plus mode Is a bitch. I can't

even get past the beginning. What's that? You

beat the game on normal or hard mode and it unlocks

game plus, which is basically everybody is insanely

more difficult to battle. Like hell mode. They

actually think intelligently. The guys you're

fighting against and you enter the city as Bruce

Wayne handcuffed and you're being attacked by

eight of penguins guys. Nice. They move fast

enough that by the time you're clubbing one guy,

you're getting clubbed in the back of the head.

So pretty much you're dead. And you can't jump.

You can't do any of that. No, you just walking

pace. Severe handicap. Yes, until you break the

handcuffs, which you have to defeat two or three

of them to do so. Wow. But yeah, but yeah, I

love that game. That would be my number one.

So there you have it folks. Those are the games

of the year. We're gonna take a break and we'll

be back after this. All right, so we are back

and we are gonna start the top 10 films. The

reason why we've increased from top 5 to top

10 because there were so many films this year

that each of us have liked. For me, I'm going

to mention really quickly the ones I want to

see that I haven't now unlike last year all of

all the ones that are on my list I have actually

seen or is last year I was going to see Tron

the next day after the recording but these are

films that I really want to see and I can't wait

till they either go to Redbox or Netflix Abduction,

Adjustment Bureau, Lincoln Lawyer, Killer Elite,

Real Steel, In Time and The Muppets I just haven't

had the extra cash or the time to go see Any

of these at this point in time so great. That's

super eight. I want to see super eight, too So

Kevin, what is your number ten? You have honorable

mentions for I just want to real quick mention

ones I haven't seen so people don't think I'm

silly, but I haven't seen girl dragon tattoo

Pirates of the Caribbean, Colombiana, Det, Extremely

Loud and Incredibly Close, Source Code, or Anonymous,

or Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy. So I haven't seen

those, so I couldn't judge them. But number 10,

you just want me to go 10 through 1? No, I know.

We're each going to do it like we've been doing

it, but just make it brief. OK. Number 10 is

Crazy Stupid Love. Best romantic comedy of the

year. Steve Carell was awesome. And it was a

good movie. Awesome. Michael, what is your number

10? I saw Pirates 4 with my boy and kind of regretted

bringing him because it's not really a movie

for kids. No, it's not. Steve, what is your number

10? 10 is just go with it. I like Adam Sandler

movies. Granted, it's not one of his best, but

it's better than that piece of shit that came

out in November. Agreed. Wait, which was the

piece of shit in November? Jack and Jill. Oh,

yeah, okay, yeah. Anything's better than that.

Hell, Revenge of the Fallen is better than that

movie. I wouldn't go that far. For me, I have

one honorable mention. Simply because it didn't

make my list because after I watched it, I felt

like I wanted my dollar six. rental money back

from Redbox. The change up, it's basically Freaky

Friday with best friend guy buddies where they

each want each other's lives and then by the

end they realize they want their own lives back.

It was okay, I like some of the humor in it but

it's not top 10. It's what? I could have told

you not to watch that. Well I did. My number

10 is friends with benefits. This was, it was

fairly unique. It was, it was decent. It was

alright, I don't know. What's your number nine

Kevin? I wanted to put this higher, but I just

couldn't, but just a great movie, a great franchise

so far. Number nine for me is Sherlock Holmes,

Game of Shadows. The dialogue is a notch above

any other movie that's been out in recent years.

It has some really cool special effects scenes

and Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are great

in it, so Sherlock Holmes, number nine. I didn't

realize that was out yet. Yeah, it came out last

month, right? Yes. Or was it this month? That

was last month. It was earlier this month. It

came out this month. Yeah, it must have been

recently. Yeah. Well, yeah, I almost slept through

the first one. My wife did sleep through the

first one. The first one was excellent. First

one was great. Second one's better. Michael,

what's your number nine? Cars two. Again another

movie that I went to go see with my boys. This

is where we found out that Gavin could not sit

through a 3d movie And then I just wasn't all

that impressed with this is the first Pixar movie

that I haven't completely fallen in love with

I Was just really really shocked, but I mean

it's nice. There's a certain amount of merchandising

there, but Yeah, again was disappointed Steve

what about you? What's your number nine? My number

nine is Transformers Dark of the Moon. Only nine?

Yeah. This is my reasoning. After getting through

the last film, my expectations were extra low.

And then I just plain didn't give a damn this

time around. And I left the theater thinking...

Yeah, I just, I don't care. And I think the other

reason why Steve, and this is, and you can correct

me if I'm wrong in this assumption, I think the

other reason why Steve and I might be a little

bit down on the Transformers films simply because

with ATTF, we've been reporting on the news of

the films since they, you know, since we, you

know, since we started podcasting in 2008. So,

you know, it's just one of those things where

that news coverage really just bears you down

after a while. My number nine is actually something

I forgot about and I had to add in and I changed

out what I originally had but I'm a fan of Jason

Statham movies just because He is a fairly decent

action star and I like the mechanic. I thought

that I thought it was a pretty decent movie Granted

all of his films. It's him doing the same thing

over and over again pretty much, but I liked

the mechanic I thought it was very very well

done What about you, Kevin? What's your number

eight? Number eight would be the Muppets. Only

number eight? Yes, number eight. The Muppets

was great. I thought Disney might do something

bad with this, but they didn't. They had many

great homages, new songs, classic songs, great

cameos like the traditional Muppet movies had,

sentimental Muppet movies or Muppet moments.

It was expertly done. Hats off to the people

that brought the Muppets back and did a good

job with it Awesome Michael, what about you?

What's your number eight? Actually, I want to

say real quick that I haven't seen the Muppets,

but I really really wanted to I Number eight

for me is Conan the barbarian the new one with

Jason Momoa Saw it in 3d Was not terribly disappointed

It wasn't fantastic, but it was it did bring

it Yeah Steve what about you number eight My

number eight is and I just had it cuz damn things

scrolled up Pirates of the Caribbean on stranger

tides just because I like the Pirates franchise

It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. I I mean it had

some of the feeling of the first film and I feel

that they could have drawn out the the blackbeard

thing a little bit longer, but It was a good

movie like it wasn't it wasn't Bad or anything,

but I mean it wasn't the best one of the Pirates

films, but it wasn't bad either It definitely

by the end let up to The fifth and sixth movie

and they're gonna be shooting back -to -back

so it has uncoupled itself from a lot of the

earlier storylines Yeah It's still it's still

somewhat connected, but there's only three reoccurring

cast from the first from the first three films

so My number eight is the only one that was a

TV movie premiere that got released on DVD Phineas

and Ferb across the second dimension I was surprised

Phineas and Ferb did not make your number one

cartoon. Yes, I Love this movie. This movie is

so awesome. Not only is it it is a completely

independent story to the television series It's

not just four episodes put back to back to back

Michael Wilson uh... you said that originally

when the news first came out about i said that's

a possibility it so it would be horrible if that

happened i didn't say all this is going to be

this way since it's not as i'd say that uh...

but yes it isn't for across second -dimension

check that out uh... step kevin what is your

number seven i'm have a tie for number seven

uh... first off the mortals uh... by the guys

that did three hundred definitely the most gory

bloody movie I've seen in a while outside of

like horror and thrasher films but there were

some epic death scenes in this movie and when

the gods came down to play it was kind of scary

but that was a good movie and I am number four

it was a very unique concept it's nice to see

some things that aren't remakes and sequels and

stuff in Hollywood and I am number four delivered

on that and I'm hopefully Looking forward to

see if they do something else with that. Because

it seems like there was more story that could

be told. So, I Am Number Four and Immortals for

number seven. We'll probably have I Am Number

Five as the sequel. Is it... is it MI? No, it's...

I Am? I Am. I Am Number Four. He is number four.

Oh! I Am Number Four! Oh, okay. You know what?

I... Didn't even bother to go see that. I thought

that looked like... it was a little too uh uh

you know chick flicky oh no i am number four

oh no it's not no that was action that was really

cool this is a guy that's getting hunted down

by these uh things because he has like a special

ability and they've already killed the three

people before him you know he's the fourth on

their list yeah i i wanted my dollar 27 back

from red box after renting that because why I

spent the first 30 minutes of the film and I

was like, oh god, it's another alien movie, lovely.

Eject. Not at all. Anyway. Michael, what is your

number seven? Number seven was Green Lantern.

Why? Oh, you know what? I probably saw maybe

a dozen movies this year. There are at least

so many, it's kind of like my video games, you

know, I didn't like Mass Effect 2, but it's still

on my list. No, I liked Green Lantern to a certain

extent. I really, I like Ryan Reynolds as an

actor. I like the special effects here. I think

they could have done things a little bit better.

I think the animated Green Lantern movie did

things a little bit better. But yeah, yeah, especially

where on the story, but I think they tried to

cater to too many You know, too many entities

here. They tried to go in too many directions

and they lost sight of what they were really

trying to do. But, you know, it was probably

the least favorite of the summer superhero movies

that I saw. But, you know, it wasn't awful. It

could have been. I've seen worse, right? Yeah,

yeah. What about you, Steve? What's your number

seven? Limitless Which which is a action film

Cannot remember the guy's name, but I know the

Cooper yeah, and you have Robert De Niro in it

as well and Cooper has he's a struggling writer

down in the dumps and then He's offered this

pill that unlocks a hundred percent of your brain

It makes him hyper intelligent to the point he

finishes his book in three days and then manages

to do stocks and all that kind of crap. The story

is him being hunted down and blackmailed. I was

a little disappointed with that one just because

I felt like it turned into more of an addiction

movie. Yeah, it kind of did. I like the concept.

I got that impression from the preview. Is that,

oh, I gotta keep taking it over and over and

over again. I thought, yeah, I don't really know

if I want to watch that. Well, and then the fact

that he had to drink the other guy's blood was

kind of stupid. Gonna eat your brain to gain

your powers. It was a good concept. I just think

they could have done a little bit better with

it. Yeah, I mean, but they were on the right

track with that. It was something new. Yeah.

Yeah. My number seven is Cars 2. I love the Cars

franchise, I love the Mater's Tall Tales stuff,

and I just thought this was a natural progression

to the original film. The voice cast, the ones

that returned anyway, because obviously, sadly,

Paul Newman has left us, but just the overall

stuff that Pixar was doing with this movie, I

really loved it. I thought it was a great, great

animated film. You know, I think if they would

have stuck a little bit closer to the original

formula, as in having a movie about Lightning

McQueen, not a movie about Mater. There's lots

of coverage of Mater on the Disney Channel, having

a whole movie about him, and shunting the main

character, who I believe is the main character,

off into like a B -side. We don't see him very

often. That's kind of where they derailed themselves.

It stopped being a... It stopped being, you know,

a buddy movie or an ensemble piece with a lot

of great characters and started being more about

Mater bumbling through the spy agency. I just

didn't, I didn't enjoy that. Gotta admit though,

Michael Caine is Finn McMissile. That was awesome.

Yeah, he was better in Goldmember. Oh, stop it.

As a spy, right? What is your number six, Kevin?

You know, this this year had definitely had its

share of superhero movies. We had like X -Men,

Thor, Green Lantern, Green Hornet. Anyway, but

we had a lot of superhero movies. And to me,

one of them was Miles, heads and feet and tails

and all kinds of stuff above all the rest of

them. And that was Captain America, the first

Avenger. This movie was blew me away. I would

actually say that this is the best superhero

superhero movie outside of the Dark Knight. franchise

of the entire last decade. I loved this movie,

and I am not a superhero buff, but Captain America

the First Avenger was awesome. And it's only

six. I know. See now, the rest of my lineup is

pretty much all superhero movies, and it being

the best, it's a lot higher up the list. So what's

your number six? Puss in Boots. That's a superhero

movie. Oh, no, it's not I'm just saying that

I get a bunch coming up but listen boots I honestly

that I I wasn't expecting much but we took the

boys to see it in 3d and Gavin paid attention

to the whole thing Amazingly, but it was so good.

It was just truly truly funny and there was a

lot of sight gags there, but there was Yeah,

yeah, I mean I really recommend this one. It's

really really good I'm gonna think of it. It

probably should have been higher up on the list,

but they're not there What's your number six

Steve my next one is tower heist and I'd like

it. That's another one. I want to say I like

it because it kind of gives me like that Oceans

11 type feel to it It also gives you that 1980s

Eddie Murphy comedy feel as well. Honestly, I

didn't really like Eddie Murphy all that much

in the movie. I could have done without him.

You could have used just about anybody for that

part. I didn't like that character, but I like

the fact that the whole plot revolves around

this rich tycoon that's embezzled everybody's

money. And nobody knows where it's hidden until

close to the end and then they end up pulling

a fast one on this guy and Ben Stiller character

takes the fall Right, but it was it was it was

funny but it was it was a funny action film Right.

Yeah My number six is fast five I know Kevin

doesn't like the franchise because it's street

racing and all this and all that but Fast Five

is the changing point of the franchise where

it's moving more into heist films and usually

when there's a year that a fast movie comes out

for me it's what starts my spring slash summer

blockbuster. Uh, and I just absolutely loved

it. It was great. So Kevin, what is your number

five? Well, that's an easy act to follow because

now no matter what movie I say, it's going to

sound legit. Um, my number five is, uh, the adjustment

bureau. Um, This was a year full of unique and

interesting films which we don't usually get

in Hollywood and Matt Damon is gold as always

and it's just not your typical film and I thought

it was really well done. So if you are a fan

of unique story ideas that you haven't heard

or seen already, you should check out the Adjustment

Bureau. I feel like I was just LeVar Burton on

the Reading Rainbow. Michael, what's your number

five? My number five is X -Men First Class. Again,

another superhero movie I really enjoyed. I liked

that it was a period piece. They kind of took

it back to the 60s. And you just don't get enough

of those. Unless they're on TV being canceled.

Actually, there was a scene in X -Men First Class

where it looked like they actually went back

to the Playboy Club. It was the Hellfire Club.

Right, but I mean it was clearly modeled on the

Playboy Club and it was Yeah, I mean it was a

good movie. They good characters. I Anticipate

a sequel that I will be going to see X -Men second

class Second class. Well, it would be interesting

because if you consider it the if you consider

those characters being the first class was I

don't right because I mean there's only one first

class and they didn't really bring those people

to the forefront in this movie, but if they did

have the second year, you know, the second year's

end, you know, I could see them holding a little

bit truer to the comic. Yeah. Steve, what is

your number five? X -Men First Class. What did

you like about that? I just, I liked some of

the portrayals of some of the characters. I agree

that that's not... the first class for many of

them. But it was more enjoyable than X3. Oh yeah,

X3 was a nightmare. I couldn't watch that. And

Wolverine was kind of hit or miss at points.

Yeah, I actually didn't have high hopes for this

movie, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Yeah,

as was I. I think they've all been good. And

my number five is Limitless. I was more captivated

by Limitless than I was Inception. That's retarded.

I'm just kidding. Well, you're retired. Limitless,

yes, it does turn into a little bit of an addiction

movie, but I like where the ending went because

that was something that I wasn't expecting because

I thought he was going to end up dying. I honestly

did. I thought he was going to die of a drug

overdose from taking too much of the stuff or

withdrawals. But I like where the ending of that

film went. So Kevin, what is your number four?

Sounded like a broken record, but another unique

and breath of fresh air movie here. Number four

for me is In Time. It was just good. I love the

concept for this. It's a great idea. For some

reason, I don't understand it, but Justin Timberlake

is good at everything he does. And this movie

just had so many things to watch for. It was

like I found myself feeling like I was watching

Back to the Future and looking for all these

different things that the people had thought

up to put in the movie. It was just a cool concept

and I really enjoyed the film. I thought it was

really well done and the girl's hot. What is

that about cuz I like Justin Timberlake and pretty

much anything he's in but you you When you hit

the age of I believe it's a 25 when you hit the

age of 25 your clock starts It's a it's a implanted

basically almost like a tattoo like number on

your forearm When you hit 25 it starts counting

down your life and you have that much time left

and Currency is time like buying things you buy

it with an hour or you buy it with two hours

or a day And you can earn more time through your

job, etc And you have basically have to earn

enough time like the poor neighborhoods are living

day to day every day they seem to have 24 hours

and they have to go out and earn their life basically

for that day. And the rich neighborhoods have

decades or 50, 60, maybe even 100 years already

on their arms. But what happens is someone who

is somehow a millionaire, I guess in these terms,

he's tired of living and he gives all his time

to Justin Timberlake and then commits suicide.

And now Justin Timberlake is in the poor ghetto

with tons of hours and it's kind of his exploration

and his mission to try to bring down the system

and Because basically the rich people are hoarding

the time from the poor people So it's pretty

cool Awesome Michael, what is your number four?

Number four was Thor I like that movie, too.

I really enjoyed I I want to say I didn't think

much of it, but I'm not a fan of Thor. I read

comic books, but I don't read Thor. I was afraid

that this whole movie was going to be a bunch

of these and those, and it was just going to

suck. Sadly, I'm not a fan of Natalie Portman.

Yeah, I think that's what really took me out

of this movie was seeing Queen Amidala in it.

She did good, though, but Thor and Loki were

excellent. Yeah, the Thor and Loki was so well

done. What really got this movie for me is when

they kept going back to Asgard and it was so

beautiful. It was just amazingly, the special

effects were amazing and yet, you know, it wasn't

done in such a way that I didn't enjoy the non

Asgardian. I thought that this movie got, you

know, got a rough, I don't know, it got bad.

Press and I didn't think it deserved as bad of

you know reviews as I got I Like that I I think

the 3d aspects could have been better. Oh, yeah,

that was done kind of shifty Yeah, yeah, but

I mean for the most part now. I really enjoyed

the movie that hammer was awesome It was well

when he actually used it to create a tornado

and fly in the air. I was like fuck Yeah, man,

that's cool Because I didn't expect to see that

but yeah Steve, what is your number four? My

number four is horrible bosses. I found this

film freaking hilarious. Like, yeah, there were

some inappropriate parts in it, but the film

overall, like, I was laughing my ass off leaving

the theater. Like, my wife and I could not regain

composure after seeing this movie. Because I

mean you stayed through that whole movie and

then you go through the blooper reel at the end

of the movie and then just You I don't know.

It's just it was really good. It was a lot better

Hangover or any of that kind of stuff Yeah, I

will say from what I've seen of it. I haven't

actually seen it. I'll see it eventually You

know, it reminds me of a cross between office

space and throw mama from the train Well came

out the same time as bad teacher and it blew

that movie out of the water Yeah, to me. I don't

know. Yeah teacher wasn't that great compared

to this I've seen both Yeah My number four is

x -men first class I was expecting this to be

You know completely different something that

was Shut up Steve I thought it was going to be

something completely different from the previous

X -Men films, but seeing as how it's Fox that

still has the license, it just felt like a fourth

X -Men movie to me that was a prequel. It didn't

really feel very different to me than the other

three X -Men films. I agree. I liked it. I liked

the fact that Charles basically stood up and

said, no, you ain't shaving my damn head. You

know, I like that. I like how Magneto was portrayed

in this. Yeah, I like killing Nazis. I mean,

what's not to love here? Yeah, I like how Magneto

came into the possession of his helmet. However,

I absolutely fucking hate Kevin Bacon wearing

the goddamn helmet. That was so fucking stupid.

I hate Kevin Bacon. Yeah. This is no good reason

to have Kevin Bacon in this movie. Well, if let

alone his name is Bacon. I like his name. Well,

Kevin, you would. What is your number three?

Another unique one. E .T. meets the Goonies,

and that would be Super 8. Youthful casted, fantastic.

J .J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg were... This

is not just a movie that Steven Spielberg's name

was attached to. This is one that he... Actually

had some influence over and you can tell JJ Abrams

is a genius Spielberg's a genius. They came together

and made a genius movie Super 8 what for most

of the year? I thought this was gonna be my film

of the year until a couple You know at the Atlanta

half of the year passed it But super 8 is definitely

worth watching and if you liked either ET or

the Goonies, you will love this movie Awesome.

Awesome. What about you Michael? What's your

number three? My number three was Captain America

And I really enjoyed no I really liked Captain

America and this is one of those where I want

to say it's kind of like the opposite of Green

Lantern Where you see the animated version and

you go wow if the writing have been closer to

this animated version Maybe that would have made

more sense on the screen, but no this was dead

-on This was this was better than any other.

I mean I've seen a few Portrayals of Steve Rogers

and his backstory and such. And this has got

to be the best I've ever seen, and it was live

-action and in 3D. And you have Mr. Smith, aka

Megatron, now being Red Skull, and he just exuded

everything about the Red Skull. He was so Red

Skull, yeah. I want to say there wasn't anything

not to like here. But yeah, and again, you got

Nazis involved. Anytime you get Nazis being killed,

hey, what's not to like there? Steve, what about

you? What's your number three? My number three

is... We bought a zoo. Really? Which just came

out. I didn't want to see that. It was pretty

good. I just saw it this last weekend. Was it

that good though? I don't know if it was good

enough to be number three I just where I put

it on my list because yeah, but it was better

than some of the other ones I mentioned so But

yeah, it's got Matt Damon in it Shows him gray

hair. I was yeah. I know there's kind of wild

seeing him old. Yeah It was it was kind of nice

seeing that old will hunting You and your stupid

puns It was funny seeing him have you know going

from one part of his life of you know, because

he basically is widowed and has two kids and

just kind of upwards and moves and has no money,

has no idea how to run the zoo and everybody's

having to help him and he's going broke through

the whole thing and then eventually pulls through

but it was pretty good. It was a nice drama.

You know what's funny is I again live near Chicago

and they have the Burkefield Zoo here. We have

a family membership. Driving down the excellent

zoo. Yeah, I was driving down the road and I

saw The billboard for we bought a zoo and it's

literally like like a zebra with a giant gift

wrap bow around it and my first impression was

it's Christmas time and Brookfield Zoo has You

know come to the zoo posters up now because it

looked it didn't you didn't really see we bought

a zoo It was like tiny letters for a billboard

up in a corner. I didn't even see that. I just

saw an animal with a bow around it and I thought,

I've already got a family membership. Kind of

weird. But no, it wasn't until much later that

I actually saw the commercial. But I'm still

not interested in seeing it. I'm just not that

big of a Matt Damon fan. Oh, blasphemy. My number

three is Transformers Dark of the Moon. Finally,

Michael Bay got his head out of his ass and actually

listened to writers and actually, you know, made

some references to a bunch of other Transformers

stuff. For me, this is the best one out of the

franchise. I so didn't see the sentinel turn

because... I don't read the prequel stuff at

all. I haven't read any of prequel stuff for

any of the films. I just don't read it. I mean,

if there's a movie novelization that's, you know,

an abridged version of the movie book, I'll do

that. But I don't read prequel stuff. I loved

all the effects. Obviously, Cullen is prime is

awesome. The first, I would say, 30 minutes of

Shia being a little bitch I couldn't take, but

he got better. over time. And I just, I really

liked it. I thought it was great. And we finally

got Soundwave on Earth and that was awesome.

He was still Dr. Claw. And Leonard Nimoy was

awesome. Yeah, Leonard Nimoy was awesome as Sentinel.

I think Shockwave was very underutilized because,

and I think this was part of the marketing scheme

where they're like, oh, Shockwave is going to

be the big bad villain. well no here's this dark

twist that we're not telling you about you know

and by now everyone's seen it and as I said before

you know Sentinel turns on on the Autobots but

I think they built up the shockwave angle to

hide the fact of the of the Sentinel turn which

whatever it's a marketing ploy but I really did

enjoy it and that's my number three so Kevin

what is your number two My number two is Rise

of the Planet of the Apes. I never thought any

movie would be able to compete with the classic

70s films, especially after Mark Wahlberg's disastrous

attempt at that. Thankfully, I was wrong. This

film blows all Planet of the Apes films out of

the water. The effects on this film are insane.

I think this is the best visual work done by

a crew since Avatar. The apes looked so freaking

realistic. There are so many great moments in

this. I can easily see this being to the Planet

of the Apes franchise what the Dark Knight films

have been to the Batman franchise. This movie

was incredible. Huh. Wow. Yeah, it was. And I

had Gollum. What's your number two, Michael?

Number two. Well, you know, I want to go back

for a second here because I was actually looking

online at some movies and it didn't occur to

me suck sucker punch came out in 2011 and I really

liked that movie. I think I liked that movie

better than like my eight nine and ten movies.

So I wanted to retroactively revise that sucker

punch should be in that list somewhere in 3D

on the IMAX because it was just awesome. Number

two Harry Potter 7 .5 I was really disappointed

with Harry Potter 7 .0 But 7 .5 was a fitting

end to the series What about you Steve what's

your number two Captain America Notice Thor was

not on my list I didn't notice I thought maybe

it'd pop up in number one or something. No, I

don't like Thor it bored me. I fell asleep Wow,

the only time I thought Thor was awesome was

in superhero squad show, but moving on I've never

liked that character But anyways too much these

and that was a superhero squad to be honest anyway

Captain America was very very good I was kind

of skeptical as far as the World War two part,

but um I like how it came out it It left me actually

wanting to see the character again Yeah Can't

wait for the Avengers. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's gonna

be cool That's gonna break records by the way

do what I hope Avengers will break records. Oh,

yes, but you know it's gonna be really interesting

next year to see The war between Avengers and

Dark Knight to who makes the most. Oh, yeah.

Well, you know, there's gonna be a Hawkeye movie,

and then probably another Iron Man, and another

Hulk, and another Captain America, and then maybe

an Avengers 2. My number two is also Captain

America. One of the things I was skeptical about

this, not only because I don't know a lot about

the character, because I've only seen him in

animation here and there, I haven't read any

of the Captain America comics, I was really skeptical

if Chris Evans could... get out of being johnny

storm and transform himself into captain america

as far as his acting and he did it amazingly

i mean there there is no reference to johnny

storm and johnny storm who uh... shut up i didn't

yeah i know i knew it was the same actor i just

i i can't equate the two Right. No, no, no. They're

two completely different role portrayals, and

I absolutely love that. Whereas, you know, you

look at Green Lantern and it's just Van Wilder

in a Green Lantern costume. But Captain America

First Avenger was great. The only thing I kept

seeing, though, is every time Tommy Lee Jones

was on the screen, I kept waiting for acid to

hit his face. Oh, that's bad. So Kevin, drum

roll please. What is your number one? I'm taking

a departure from all of the geek movies that

we've been talking about and doing something

you wouldn't usually expect out of me. It was

a sleeping giant for me coming in at number one.

The movie 50 -50. I never expected this film

to be my favorite film of the year. I thought

it was going to be between Planet of the Apes

and Super 8 and then I saw this film and it blew

me out of the water. So many people, like myself,

have had personal experiences with cancer and

this movie was needed and appreciated. It had

the right blend of humor on a serious subject

matter. not so much that it took away from how

traumatic these experiences can be based on a

real -life experience of Seth Rogen with one

of his friends a bittersweet movie in a way,

but so worth it and I Don't know if it's not

gonna get the credit it deserves but this movie

was very much I don't know done, right? I haven't

heard of that one either 50 -50. It's Joseph

Gordon -Levitt on Seth Rogen. It's Joseph Gordon

-Levitt gets cancer at a very young age of 20

something Upper 20s mid 20s or something and

it's his experience with it And it's just very

real Wow Well, let's see that too Michael what

is your number one? I'm gonna have to go with

Transformers 3 dark the moon Again, I'm surprised

it didn't end up higher on your list, but this

movie, I really think redeemed the franchise.

Partially, it might just be because it was, I

want to say piecemeal stolen from several G1

cartoon storylines. I mean and there was a lot

of neat stuff going on there was a lot of really

cool stuff the there were no twins I Know they

showed up in the book And they got killed which

I personally I think I would have rather seen

I would have rather seen them get killed in the

movie Even if Michael Bay said they're not gonna

be in the movie I would have allowed them to

be in the movie for five minutes long enough

to get killed But no, I really enjoyed the movie

I I don't think there was anything that I didn't

enjoy about the movie. There was 100 % less dog

humping, probably about 35 % less military stock

footage, just a lot of good stuff going on. I

was really happy and I saw it several times,

in fact. And that's just because I'm a huge Transformers

geek, but because I, you know, I wanted to see

it in the IMAX, and I wanted to see it on a regular

screen, and I was even coaxing to see it in non

-3D and didn't enjoy it without 3D elements.

The 3D was done very well. It was just really,

really cool. And that's my number one. 3D is

a gimmick that needs to fade away. Oh, stop it.

And die. Yes, and die. Smell -O -Vision was the

game I needed to fight away. Yeah, that was in

Spy Kids. That was the only revival of Smell

-O -Vision was the crappy Spy Kids movies. What's

your number one, Steve? Okay. My number one is...

Sherlock Holmes and the Game of Shadows. That

film was by far... Way better than the first

and unlike certain Movies the where the sequels

don't measure up to the first film or or The

first movie wasn't that great Second movie was

even better both movies were top ten of their

year. Oh, yeah So, I mean this this film deserves

to be up there in the top ten top five at least

but I I just I loved this film. I went saw it

last week and I I love the the comedy bits that

are in there. I love the you know, slow motion

taking into their mind showing how they Figure

out certain things and then I like how the dynamic

between down in June You're in Jude Law, so that's

got the most intelligent dialogue in Hollywood

in the last oh yeah Well, they have to yeah sure

like Holmes mm -hmm But yeah, that's my number

one awesome nice pick Thanks, yes I'm hoping

there isn't a click after this but my number

one like and this is out of I already know what

it is. I'm mad The ones that I've seen this year,

the one that I was most impressed with, the one

that a few moments of it during it, pretty much

I was on the edge of my theater seat. Mission

Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol. Most overrated movie

of the year. I absolutely love what they did

with all of the new cast that they brought in

for Ethan Hunt's team. I love Ethan Hunt's characterization

in this. I think my only issue with this movie

is the fact that Simon Pegg has now taken over

the Ving Rhames spot of the comedy bit, and Ving

Rhames has just been relegated to an uncredited

cameo. Yes, it is a generic nuclear war plot,

but I like all the gadgets. I like all the effects.

Because I am a person who passed two -story buildings,

I'm scared to death of heights. I did jump out

of my chair when I thought he was almost going

to fall off that tall building. which is the

tallest building in the world. No, seriously.

I get vertigo like that. Looking down or looking

straight up from tall places, I get vertigo like

that. That's just what happens. I don't doubt

it, but what I find shocking is that you actually

thought he would die. I thought he was going

to fall. And die? Not die, just fall further

than he did. Well, he probably pulls his own

face off and it becomes a parachute and he could

have floated away to safety. The effects are

cool, the visual things are cool, the action

sequences are cool, the gadgets they use are

cool. All this is is a summer blockbuster, though.

I have no problems with people saying this is

a good movie or that they really love this movie,

but everyone that is making this the top 1, 2,

3, 4, or 5 movie of the year is out of their

freaking mind. Sorry, there's a lot of better

movies over the summer. That's true. This is

at least Fast Five wasn't your number one pick.

Good Lord. At least it wasn't my number one pick.

It should have been your number five pick. Wait,

wait, wait, wait. What did you say Kevin? I said

at least Fast Five wasn't your number one pick.

Oh no. Now, you know, I like Fast Five for what

it is. I like that franchise for what it is.

That's, as I said before, that's the beginning

of the summer stuff for me. But Fast Five, as

good as it was and as well as I liked it, no,

it's nowhere near. Being a number one movie.

Just real quick before we move on to our next

section, because nobody mentioned it in any of

their list, and I didn't have it on my list,

but I feel like a couple movies were really good,

and I want to at least give them a mention. Moneyball

was really good. Cowboys and Aliens, I thought,

was better than it should have been. Oh, forgot

about that one. Yeah, Real Steel was way better

than I thought it was going to be. And even The

Eagle I liked. So if you're interested in any

of those, you should check them out. Quick question,

Real Steel, is that appropriate for, like, my

boy? Because I was thinking about taking him

to see it because it seemed like you know the

little kid in it there's robots. I think so It's

basically a live -action rock -em -sock -em robots,

but what's it rated Kevin? I was gonna check

that out real quick. I mean, it's a it's a friendly

I think it's a family -friendly movie. I'm not

let me a hundred percent double check that but

no it was You know Hugh Jackman and the kid the

kid was excellent. Actually. He was way better

And I thought it was me and I thought this was

gonna be a stupid movie And we just went to see

it because nothing else was playing at the time.

And I just think it was pretty darn good. And

it is rated PG -13. Did you find it already?

No, I'm guessing. Why won't you tell me? Because

I'm not looking it up. That's your job. No, I'm

asking why Wikipedia won't tell me. It won't

tell you. It's got to be rated PG or G. I was

tempted to take him to see that. And I ended

up not. because I wasn't sure. It's kind of like

Pirates 4. I took them to see that and I was

like, oh my god, everyone's getting run through

with skimitars and you know, it's like, whoa,

you know, this is not appropriate for little

kids to be watching. And I was afraid I was just

giving more of that, you know. Yeah, it's not

being nice to me right now. It's not telling

me what the heck it's rated But no, I'm trying

to remember back to see if there's any specific

scenes. It's PG -13 So there must have been one

or maybe that's just for the violence though

It might be just before because of the boxing

moments. I don't remember there being any like

No, any like I don't think there was any sexual

or anything like that I don't think there was

any intense romantic scenes or anything like

that it was pretty much I think it's just because

the robots are beating the crap out of each other

so much but you might want to watch it first

or something just yeah I might just pass for

right now and maybe I'll just watch it with my

wife or something but I thought that might be

something he'd like Smurfs was another movie

that I thought he might like that I didn't actually

go see It says, rated PG -13 for some violence,

intense action, and brief language. Oh, well,

maybe it's okay for him, then. We let him watch

intense action. But it was way better than I

thought it was gonna be. Yeah, it's not like

saving part of Orion. If he can watch Dark of

the Moon, he can watch Real Steel. Oh, he's never

seen that. In fact, he watched one episode of

Power Rangers and we banned it. Yeah, I'm like,

you know, you're never watching that again. You

know, because he was running around punching

things and it's like, uh, no. Yeah, but for people

that like like the epic movies the eagle is one

you should check out too I was I haven't heard

that one either that is like a back in like the

Roman Empire type deal where a I don't know if

he was a general or whatnot. He's trying to go

into Unknown territory to get back a item that

his father had lost decades earlier and it's

just kind of like a it's kind of like I don't

know, you'd put it in the same realm as all those

other ones that were, not like gladiator, but

like... I don't want to say Troy because Troy

was a bad movie, but uh... I don't know, you

know, the old Roman Empire type stuff. Yeah.

No, that does sound cool. I mean, I'm probably

the last guy in the world that should be reviewing

movies because all I see is sci -fi and superhero

crap, but there's probably a good six or seven

you guys have mentioned that I'm gonna go try

to pick up on Netflix. Cool. Awesome. Let us

know what you think of them. Yes. So there you

have it. Those are all of our lists for top 10

movies of the year. We are going to move on to

memorable moments. I'm going to go first on this

one. I only have three. Anything to do with Arkham

City. Just seeing the trailers, seeing the Harley

trailer. Seeing more of what that game has to

offer another part of that that I loved was what

happened at the VGAs even though the spike VGAs

sucked this year, but just what they did with

Mark Hamill's voicing the Joker and What do you

have to kill to get an award around here? That

was just awesome another one Finally getting

new albums from my top two favorite bands through

them and Nickelback because it has been a number

of years since Either band had released an album.

Where's the new Rock Sugar album? I'm gonna be

pressing Jess about that next year. I'm still

waiting on that, yeah. And the final moment for

me was actually podcast related. The launch of

three awesome new podcasts in Rob Paulson's Talkin'

Tunes where... I truly believe our first interview

with him made him get into podcasting. We're

going to find that out maybe next year. I don't

know. Earth2 .net's dropped D, it's the very

first, at least the first one I've listened to,

a music review podcast where they take one artist

and they review every single album, one album

per episode. uh... so take like guns and roses

one episode will be all about appetite for destruction

and so on and so forth until they get through

an entire artist discography uh... and the final

one for the podcasts the untitled mike and laura

project from mike the fist of justice layman

and laura boobies thomas uh... very very awesome

to hear them do their own show is that really

her nickname Was originally her nickname her

name now is Laura LT smash Thomas and now it's

a running joke on that podcast where she changes

it every week Okay So Kevin what are your favorite

moment or moments of 2011 I just got to I don't

know how many people saw this YouTube clip or

saw it live on TV or on some type of replay show

but Anderson Cooper giggling like a little girl

When he was telling the story about Gerard Defardieu

peeing or doing whatever he did on the airplane

I don't know if you haven't seen this YouTube

Google it you got to find it. It was live on

air It's Anderson Cooper and he starts giggling

to the point where he cannot control himself

And it's so out of character for him and his

laugh is so high I have seen that it's funny

freaking hilarious that gave me a good laugh

But my favorite moment of the year would consist

of a number of moments, and it all revolves around

one name. Charlie Sheen. Winning. I'll get to

that later. Winning. That was so awesome. The

entire meltdown was epic to watch, and there

it was just amazing. That's my favorite moment.

Because he has Adonis DNA. And tiger blood. I

loved it. Tiger blood. That's right. I almost

forgot about that So Steve, what are your favorite

moment or moments of the year? I have to agree

with you. I I think That the thing with the video

game awards. I think that was truly epic Of Mark

Hamill Yes, yes, it was even though they pretty

much slighted him and Tara strong and put them

in the nosebleed section Which was so friggin

stupid and they didn't even yeah, but What are

your other moments for 2011, Steve? Favorite

moment? I'd have to say the fact that there were

so many damn movies I actually went and saw this

year. Good days for movies. Yes, some good, some

bad, some that needed to draw to a close, some

that unfortunately are going to be returning.

I'm not getting into those, but anyways. Yeah,

so I mean between those and then of course, you

know the stuff with Geekcast radio finally getting

larger on the grid Yeah, and then for my Wait,

we're not going into epics yet. We got Michael

still for favorite moments. All right. Oh Okay,

Michael. What are your favorite moment or moments

of 2011? well Originally, when I first saw our

favorite moment there, I thought we were still

talking about films. No. This is just in general.

One of my favorite moments in film, anyway, was

at the end of Transformers 3, where Megatron

single -handedly wipes out all the bad guys and

tears off their faces. You mean Optimus? Is that

what I said? You said Megatron did it. It would

have been more awesome if Megatron had done it.

It's getting late. I'm tired. I may have set

Megatron. No, I optimus prime tearing off everybody's

face That was that was fairly epic I think I

would have rather him handle it as he did in

the book Where he actually teams up with Megatron

to defeat Sentinel Prime? But you know, hey,

okay. Let's let's kill off the major bad guy

after 30 years of you know franchise sure why

not I Want to say Gosh off the top of my head

what were some more impressive moments? As far

as as far as geeky type things go Spider -man

Was rebooted name they now have a for lack of

a better term a black spider -man I Mean I don't

I don't follow the comics so much, but I know

it was huge. It was huge news. And there was

a lot of people who don't even follow. It's like

when Superman died. People who don't even follow

comics are coming out of the woodwork and going,

oh, you know, voicing their opinion the one way

or the other. Also, the revealing of who would

be the villains and who would be the characters

in the next Dark Knight was kind of a big moment.

Yeah, OK. Yeah, I wasn't really thrilled with

that either. I mean, I like I like Anne Hathaway

as the Catwoman and I want to say I'm the first

person who said Now I know why the Dark Knight

Rises. Rises, yes, it was you. I think that was

me. Yeah. Well, Anne Hathaway is hot. There was

a movie and I forget the name of the movie right

off hand, but She had a masturbation scene That

was very hot and you know go look it up somewhere

if you haven't seen it, but yeah, it was like

wow, okay? Because you think oh she did princess

diaries or whatever she's not gonna be all that

seductive She doesn't have that catwoman quality

and then you go back and find this clip and it's

like whoa, holy cow Yeah, so so there's that

but I don't think I I Don't think I was completely

blown away over that moment I don't know, this

has been a dull year. I was really excited to

go see the end of the Harry Potter franchise.

And I think they really pulled that out. They

knocked that one out of the park. I can't remember

now which movie made more money. Was it Harry

Potter or Transformers 3? Sadly, it was Potter.

Was it? Okay. Potter beat it out by like half

a million or something like that, but Transformers

3 made a lot. I mean, out of the three films,

it made the most. Yeah. Okay, so yeah, so there's

that. But no, I mean, I don't really think 2011

has been all that fantastic for me as a, you

know, as a fan. I mean, this is kind of the year

that I really stopped collecting Transformers.

Mainly due to the fact that the majority of the

toys that are coming out now are all Bayformers,

or some derivative thereof. You can get into

those Prime toys. They are actually really good

toys. Eh, maybe a couple of them. Like I said,

do I really need another movie, Bumblebee? Probably

not. Well, it's slightly different than movie

Bumblebee. It's actually a lot different than

movie Bumblebee. While it still retains the look

of it, it's a completely different design. But

anyways. I hear no there. As far as fandom goes,

this hasn't really been a good year for me. you

know I don't want to say you know reinvented

myself because I've been as a father because

I've been a father for a few years now you know

but uh but I'm less of a you know geeky nerdy

transformer collector you know fanboy type than

I am You know putting more attention to my kids

and raising them because they're not they're

not toddlers anymore I actually have to pay attention

to what they do and say The things my voice says

are insane. I mean just some of the stuff that

comes out of his mouth is crazy And they take

a lot more effort so no, I think this is probably

the year that You know, I've become less of a

fanboy didn't go to BotCon didn't do You know,

some of the more fanboy -ish, transformery type

things that I usually do or have done for the

last 10 -15 years. And refocus more on just being

a dad. Epic fails! Um, of course, Charlie Sheen's

craziness. That gave everybody the reason to

go, I'm winning! But yeah, I only say it's an

epic fail because well he lost his damn marbles

and killed his show But he is still did he kill

his career though I mean he's still my no his

career will bounce back next year when he starts

his new show anger management I Only hope that's

true epic fails for you Steve No, I think that's

pretty much it, other than the fact that I've

been waiting on new opportunities and getting

tired of being where I'm at now. What about you,

Kevin? Any epic fails for you for this year?

Yeah, I got three. All the sports strikes, the

NBA and the NFL strikes fail on them. Fail, fail,

fail. The Kim Kardashian marriage. That lasted

72 days is a fail on all of society. And my other

one would be the, even though I like these two

people individually, the Oscar host fiasco this

year with the replacement and insertion of James

Franco and Anne Hathaway. They were absolutely

terrible as Oscar hosts. James Franco was high,

I believe, and Anne Hathaway may have been drunk.

I don't know, but it was a horrible job hosting

the Oscars last year. Michael do you have any

epic fails of 2011? I don't want to say it was

so much a fail as much as it was ah crap this

sucks ass it's uh when macho man macho man Randy

Savage died it was like wow that is that is just

so yeah yeah I was I mean it wasn't a fail in

the sense that Your kids got a fork in their

nose, you know, yeah anything else that are more

epic fails and not celebrity deaths We already

covered the celebrity death. I know but I mean

we did cover the celebrity death But that that's

really what the one that hit me. It's like wow,

you know, this really sucks ass You know, I don't

live in this world anymore. Yeah Yeah, okay for

me I only have four Only yeah the ocean marketing

fiasco that just that has just happened over

the last two weeks since recording this episode

that was the dumbest thing ever i never heard

that either go go google ocean marketing and

you'll you'll be able to read all about it um

number three the mishandling of the voice acting

awards in spike tv's vgas the problem with this

is they were like oh well here's you know Here's

best male of the year. Here's best female. They

just announced them They didn't even allow best

male and best female voice performance went to

the portal to voice actors. I think more so Mark

Hamill rather than as much as I hope Tara Strong

will win I knew she wasn't going to I think it's

a damn shame that Mark Hamill did not win best

male voice of the year But they basically just

glossed right over it. They didn't even have

people come up and do announcement speeches for

that. The Spike VGAs this year, even though they

were better than last year's show, they focused

more on it being a very lengthy episode of Game

Trailers TV. That's all it was. Because they

were showing off tons of world premieres for

games coming up. Number two Kevin already mentioned

it the whole Kardashian wedding shit And number

one simply for one reason only number one epic

fail of the year for me Charlie fucking Sheen

it's more so because of what happened with his

kids. He went on the air after that happened

and he's like, oh, it was just a stunt, it was

just a publicity stunt, it was just this, it

was just that. I'm sorry, the Beverly Hills Police

Department does not take time out of their busy

ass days to have a stunt being done at your fucking

house and having your children forcibly removed

from you. That was so fucking stupid and I can't

get behind any of that bullshit and every time

Steve says it I fucking cringe. I'm winning.

Shut up. Actually there was one more thing that

I forgot about that would be an epic fail. I

was expecting an iPhone 5 this year. Yeah, everybody

was. Everybody was and I got an iPhone 4S. Did

I buy one? Yes I did because I had to replace

my ancient -ass iPhone 3G. Uh, you know, am I,

am I one of those, you know, whiners that say,

Oh God, I really wish the five would come out.

Yeah, I wind. I, I wrote a blog post about it.

I was really kind of pissed off. Uh, but I bought

the forest. I really like it. I enjoy it. I didn't

want to wait another year for the five. I have

no idea what the five is going to hold for us.

I think iPhones just in general are epic fails.

I mean, it depends. I, if you want to ignore

the legacy of Steve jobs, then yeah. Okay. Fine.

But I have no problem with that. Alright so that's

it for our favorite moments and epic fails and

we are going to be moving on. GCRN in 2012. And

now to almost close out the show at least for

us. We're going to be telling you what is coming

up for geek cast or radio network in 2012 2011

was our biggest year yet 2012 holds all kinds

of awesome goodness Starting off with stuff that

we are ending this year in 2011 transformation

animation This also currently ends our transformers

cartoon review podcasting for now. It will be

back eventually Tooncast Classic ended this year

and Secret Origins Podcast ended this year. All

of the shows that you know and love will be returning

next year. Legends of the Dark Knight is continuing,

Once on Joe Mind, GCR Wars, hopefully we can

get that off the ground. Toycast will be returning

for the entire year of 2012. After that, we're

not too sure. Tooncast Beyond will be continuing

and Movie Weekend Review as well as GeekCast

Radio. I'm sure we'll do a few All Things Transformers

episodes here and there. And Telecast will be

returning, I think. Dead silence. All right.

Moving on to the brand new shows for 2012. Steve,

you want to take that first one in the image

there? Your baby there? Yes, as soon as my browser

shows up. Steve launched, well he will be launching,

Extreme Retro Gaming. Yes, Extreme Retro Gaming,

which is basically in the title what it says.

Um... Extreme! Yes. Sounds like Rob Liefeld should

be doing the cover art or something. Extreme!

Yeah. Anyways, um... Yeah, that used to be a

site I ran whatever I will officially unveil

it after the new year It will basically entail

with current and retro video games Just so that

we can get different gaming perspectives and

it'll be kind of one shots on each Game itself

instead of just franchises, right? You were a

dot you were a dot you liked it Speaking of dots,

aren't you also going to be rebooting mainframe,

Steve? Yes, I'll be rebooting mainframe Which

is the We're gonna be doing the reboot show Myself

and Tara and maybe a third person will be discussing

mainframes Primary 3d show before Beast Wars

of reboot which I have the complete series of

Yes, yes that will start some time and within

the first six months of 2012 and in any case

And all is Kevin needs is a piece of chicken

wire and a lighter For your new show that you're

gonna be premiering in 2012 the MacGyver files

Yeah It's the best show of all time I own all

seven seasons on DVD as well as the television

movies and we're going to uncover the MacGyver

files in depth by going episode by episode reviewing

them all in the MacGyver files and it's going

to be awesome. That will be awesome. Continuing

the 80s live action review show trends, myself

and Dion the Music Man are going to be reviewing

every episode of Knight Rider when we premiere

next September, Beyond the Knight. So there's

that and then Kevin and I are going to be premiering

in April, Masked Mayhem, where we're going to

review every episode from the television show,

Mumbled Armored Strike Command, all 75 episodes

of that. And then in October... With a K. Yes.

Then in October... Kevin and I are going to start

a very very long good journey when we unveil

powers of grayskull we are going to review every

single episode of all four Masters of the Universe

cartoons from the 80s He -Man and She -Ra to

that crappy new adventure stuff to 2000x Mike

Young Productions Masters of the Universe So

that's what's coming up in 2012. Steve, didn't

you have one other one on here that you were

going to be doing? Yes. I will be launching with

a friend that I've known since high school a

board game podcast, which will more than likely

be like a monthly show, maybe more frequent,

just depending on how it goes. But it'll be called

Tabletop Enthusiast. Yeah, so we'll focus on

your standard board games, card games, RPG strategy,

and all different kinds that you play on the

tabletop. There may be a few other things of

surprising new shows or new things that might

come your way that we're not going to tell you

about yet. Depending on how much time we have

in between the car I mean we're launching five

brand new podcasts next year in inclusion to

the five that are five or six or seven that are

that are returning that's still it's just this

stuff you don't know about yet, but yeah, and

there's also you know We already kind of mentioned

it but wars and the flagship show are gonna have

some cool themed type of things coming too Oh,

yes, yes, you know So that's it for GCN in 2012.

Stay tuned for that. We are going to take a break.

And you're going to hear from some of our partners

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them. And we'll be back after this. And now,

our syndicated hosts. This is Jason Marsden,

voice of Duke, from G .I. Joe Renegades. You

are listening to the Geekcast Radio Network.

Hello everyone and welcome to this GCRN year

in review special, What's on Joe Mine? Any other

time we're a weekly fancast about the world of

G .I. Joe, but tonight we're bringing the recording

gear out one more time before the end of 2011

to go over some of the best and worst moments

from G .I. Joe to last year. This is the first

time you're hearing us. I'm Gary, otherwise known

as Commander -in -Chief on the forums. Joining

me is our man behind the curtain. And whatever

he's doing behind the curtain, we don't want

to know. But when he always comes out, he has

a smile on his face. Everyone, please say hi

to our showrunner, Greg. Hello. He's also known

as Crosshair. He is the admin of GeneralJose

.com, which makes him some sort of rock star

in the community or something. But tonight, he

put the groupies on hold so he can be here to

correct Chuck. You know him as General Hawk,

but we know him as Justin. Everyone, say hi to

Justin. What's happening, guys? How you doing?

Glad you're here. Glad to be here. You know our

last host on the program as Chuck or Chuck Dogg

in 1999, but on the program he is known to the

three of us as, uh, no, you're wrong and what

the hell are you talking about? But for the sake

of tonight's recording, we'll just stick with

Chuck. Is that okay, man? That sounds good to

me, buddy. Awesome. And now we are off and running

as probably one of our quickest intros yet. Greg,

back to you. All right. So let's talk about the

top five and worst five items for 2011 in the

world of G .I. Joe. So we'll start off with the

worst first. Number one on the worst list is

the ending of G .I. Joe Renegades the Animated

Series. We talked about it when it actually happened

a couple months ago, but I think all of us were

pretty big fans towards the end of the series.

What do you guys think? Oh yeah, I agree. I mean,

I was one of the few folks kind of pumping it

up before it even aired. A lot of the artwork

had turned a lot of people off, but I think those

folks who actually stuck with it and watched

it, most of them enjoyed it and really thought

it was a pretty refreshing take on it and were

kind of disappointed with it and I know I was

definitely at the top of that list. I ended up

enjoying it much more than that overproduced

overhyped schlock show T at Transformers Prime

and I thought it was gonna be a horrible show.

Yep. And I mean the story just dragged kept me

interested until the very end. I was like hey,

sorry to see you go. Yeah, just when it was starting

to get good we had a kind of a tie -up of loose

ends and there's still some loose ends out there

and the toys were just that close from hitting

with long with the cartoon and fail. They ruined

it for us. So we'll see if it's really on hiatus

or not. Time will tell, but it certainly doesn't

look good, especially when you go into a Target

or a Walmart and see a bunch of pegs of Renegades

figures hanging on the shelves and not much else.

But who knows, I'll get my finger crossed. Fingers

crossed. Jeez. Where's your other finger? I can't

tell. Where's your other finger, Justin? This

is the explicit tag in iTunes. Number two on

the worst list was... Quinn and Data Viper were

shelved slash canceled. So we saw our first glimpse

of the action figure Quinn in jungle fatigues

for the first time in nearly 30 years. And then

we found out that he actually was not going to

be coming out. Just kidding. Yeah. Pull the rug

out from underneath us. And then the same happened

with Data Viper where we saw prototypes of it.

And then we realized that it wasn't actually

going to come out this year either. So sad day

for both of those. Yeah, it was a bummer, especially

the Data Viper, just because we've been pretty

much told that the Data Viper is dead in the

water, and not really to expect a whole lot from

him. Quinn, at least, they're kind of still leading

us along, saying they're gonna find a way to

get him out there. Just may not be until 2012,

whereas Data Viper, they've basically said, tough

luck. Suckas. Maybe another time, so. Suckas.

Suckas. It's a bummer. I kind of understand why

they did it, and there's... It would appear that

by cancelling data viper maybe they're able to

give us some more interesting stuff in the rumorodders

and dreadnought seven packs. I don't know if

that's the case or not. It does seem to coincide

with that tooling getting dropped. Hey, you never

know. Maybe something good came out of it. But

as of now, the lack of a data viper is pretty

disappointing. I agree with both of you. I was

looking forward to Quinn a little bit more just

because it was going to be nice to have like

a stockier body type for customizers and what

have you. Data Viper is like a new character.

The look of him, I mean, it just screened fragile

to me, so I wasn't that heartbroken over it,

but it's a shame that... Both of them aren't

going to see the light in 2011. Chuck, since

when do you care about customizers? Three episodes

ago, you said you didn't. Well, I... Well, no.

I mean, I care, but I don't want figures to be

designed just for, you know, just for their comfort.

Remember, you're always on the record here on

what's on Joe Mine. Right. You don't get away

with anything, Chuck. You're nothing. Look, I

mean, if you want to know, I'm happy to see it.

I was happy to see the Quinn figure because maybe

somewhere down the line somebody can make a figure

of me using that body mold. There I said it.

That would be a lot of sculpty. That's all I

have to say. Anyways, yes the data viper died

for your fanboy sins and it probably did resurrect

14 of figures which would be the dread knocks

and the renegades and if that's so I will take

that 14 to one trade Quinn Quinn is not dead.

We've we're gonna get him one way or another

It's Daryl's baby. If he says it's coming, it's

coming. I believe him. He's a fan just like us

Thank God, so we will see him hell or high water

It just we don't know when that's gonna be number

three on the list of the worst is distribution

issues for figures this year, so we five and

six of Pursuit of Cobra were pretty much very

very hard to find in stores and even then it

was pretty much only Walmart's and then we had

two different times this year where we had two

waves come out within a month of each other and

the first part of that wave is or the first wave

of that group was always hard to find so I think

this is a year that people really had issues

getting figures in stores when they wanted to.

Yep I would agree with that I mean distribution

for GI Joe hasn't been fantastic anyway but you

didn't really see a year like this year and the

real shame of it is A lot of people are kind

of, you know, blaming 2009 and the rise of Cobra

Glut of product, and I can kind of agree with

that. There's so much product out there that

just didn't move. But what happens is that you

get figure waves like this year, in 2011, that

were excellent, and some of the best toys that

Hasbro has produced in many, many, many years,

and yet retailers are so gun -shy on the G -Edge

O brand, they under -order or they don't order

at all, and you have some of the best figures

that Hasbro has produced in recent years that

aren't being given to retail stores for sale,

or aren't being ordered by retail stores for

sale, which is... kind of a shame. There's a

bunch of good stuff in waves five and six that

just kind of never really hit the market, never

really flooded the market. Thankfully, that's

kind of been resolved a little bit as the 30th

anniversary hit. I know at least waves one and

two have started hitting retail pretty heavily

again, but now we're running to the same problem

with waves three and four where a lot of places

are, those are kind of trickling out there, but

they're not in heavy distribution yet. Now before

Chuck goes real quick, Chuck, I will actually,

since you have so much problem with distribution,

I will defer my entire speaking rotation to you

to give you extra time. to talk about how bad

distribution is in your area. All I need is 10

seconds, so Chuck, go. All I was going to say

is I think this was an issue that Hasbro's had

the entire year with both its major brands. As

Greg said, it was like those last two waves,

five and six, and it was on four. I had honestly

thought that by now we would have seen them just

because stores would be putting them out now

instead of the newer product, but fool me, they're

putting out the newer product. It's a shame because

it was some really great Figures in those last

two waves that other people are going to have

to go through other means to get if they really

want Pre -order your toys at Kokomo toys calm

Number four kind of ties in with distribution,

but But we have a very limited release of 30th

anniversary figures. So initially when it was

announced, it was supposed to be 30 for 30. So

we were going to get 30 different figures and

vehicles tied into the 30th anniversary of GI

Joe. And that kind of got chopped with retaliation

dropping in 2012. Yeah. I don't know if we really,

if we ended up getting a lot of stuff chopped,

but I think the 30th, it's kind of a shame that

the 30th anniversary got truncated the way it

did. I think we got everything or most of everything,

maybe except for Quinn that Hasbro had pair.

But it still it seems like it's not what the

30th anniversary deserved or not what this kind

of new rebranding of GI Joe deserved I mean if

you sit there and you look at wave 4 and you

look at the zombie viper and sci -fi and airtight

and lifeline and you just want to weep because

Hasbro's getting every single figure perfect

just in time to say all right now we're stopping

time to move on to retaliation and you got to

kind of just cross your fingers and hope that

they continue full steam ahead with retaliation

toys I, again, have to agree with what's already

been said. It's a shame that, you know, the 30th

anniversary of the Toy line that really helped

establish Hasbro in the 1980s gets, like, a four

-month span. I mean, there should be, I feel,

should have been a bigger celebration, but with

the movie coming out, I understand what they're

thinking, and, you know, we just have to deal

with it. Yeah, it's just a brief train stop onto

the next movie. So, unfortunately, that's all

we get, and there's no point in really getting

upset. at it right now because it's done, we're

moving on, we'll see movie stuff come April.

Alright, and then our final worst for 2011. Justin,

you want to explain this one a little bit more?

Sure, yeah. One of the things that I've always

loved about G .I. Joe throughout the years was

that they managed to tell a pretty interesting

story through the toys, whether, you know, sometimes

it's through the comics, sometimes it's through

the cartoon, but a lot of times even just through

the toys themselves, like with Barrel Roll and

Blackout, the Stall Brothers, they kind of told

a neat story. They really seemed to go the extra

mile to tell that story. But I think they really

dropped the ball, especially with Wave 4 when

we got the Zombie Vipers. And we heard a little

bit of a snippet at JOCON this past year. about

Compound Z and how about how it's used to create

the zombie vipers. But I really think zombie

vipers and the 30th anniversary figures could

have been a lot more successful as a whole if

Hasbro had found a way to kind of weave a story

into them. Kind of what motivated Cobra to create

the zombie vipers, what exactly Compound Z was.

Even this last wave four of figures where you

had Syfy and Airtight and Lifeline and the zombie

vipers all in one wave almost seemed to be a

branding or a storyline built wave where you

had Airtight versus the zombie vipers. your life

line could kind of tie into that too. Yet, we

didn't really get a story to show what happened

or what the evolution of the story was. And I

think as popular as the Zombie Vipers already

are, there's people out there buying dozens of

them already from online stores. I think they

could have been even more popular or maybe gotten

stuck in the muds like Gary to come around to

them if we actually had a story to go along with

them. Hey, hey, hey, hey. To kind of explain

how they came into being, why they came into

being, and what the whole purpose of them was.

So I think that was really a ball that got dropped

by Hasbro. VW and companies like that to kind

of tell the G .I. Joe story. But I think they've

got to make some effort to do it with themselves

within the toy line, too. And I think when they

don't do it, they can sometimes drop the ball

and sometimes lose some of the magic that was

G .I. Joe. So that was a big bummer for me. I

was really looking forward to these wave four

file cards thinking that, oh, wow, maybe they'll

tell a little story about how these characters

all come together, like how the zombie viper

evolved to what he is. And we just we basically

got nothing. So that was kind of disappointing

to me. Justin you just touched upon IDW. I mean

this could have been a great way to tie into

their little zombie Crossover storyline that

they did earlier this year Infestation I I mean

that I mean it was presented. He was laid before

Hasbro I think they really should have taken

the opportunity and just stepped right up the

door was open walk on through I am not a stick

in the mud, by the way. No, I was at JoCon and

I heard the whole story and I know how it's going.

But it's also, it's the potpourri of picking

accessories I think sometimes Hasbro runs into.

It's like, well, here's what we have access to.

Oh, we got the blue heavy water catalytic element

that we had for the mass device. So let's throw

that in there. Well, now we got something blue.

How else can we wrap something blue? Well, we

got all these nanomite containers that we paint

green for the movie. Let's paint those blue or

include the hazard viper into it. And then all

of a sudden you got... zombies out of this thing.

Once again, love the zombie viper, love the sculpting

and everything, absolutely hate the concept.

I'm done. Stick in the mud. Haters gonna hate.

That's right, haters gonna hate. So let's move

on to the best of 2011, which I think there's

quite a bit to talk about, so it was hard to

pare it down to just five things. Number one

on the list for us was GI Joe Renegades. Even

though it was cancelled, the actual episodes

were just great animation and... the callbacks

to the original G .I. Joe run were very neat

and I think if it had to wrap up, it did a pretty

good job wrapping up that little period of time.

Yeah, I'm trying to keep in mind that we're recording

a segment for another show, so I don't want to

rattle on and rattle on and rattle on, but man,

I could talk about G .I. Joe renegades for three

hours all on its own. It was awesome. Yeah, it

was a really cool thing that Hasbro did. They

found a way to bring in the G .I. Joe concept

without going overboard into the military, yet

military was still definitely a part of it. It

wasn't perfect. There were the biovipers that

were kind of a pain. souped up laser weapons

that weren't so realistic. It got a little formulaic

at the beginning, but it really came onto something

good. They were doing some great stories, great

plot development, great character development.

They weren't afraid to break down some of those

barriers. They had a really good way, even though

people did complain about the artwork a little

bit, they had a great way of taking the right

character traits and building on them. Their

new Destro was fantastic. Their new Firefly was

really cool. Cobra Commander had evolved into

something that where people really kind of didn't

like his design at the beginning, by the end

with the... his full face mask and everything.

He was a really cool, viable character that looked

the part of Cobra Commander. It was doing a lot

of things right. And it was really disappointing

that it ended. But of course, we're on the best

of list now, so we've got to talk about what

it did well. And I think it told a really cool

story, really progressed over the series of episodes.

And I thought they did the GI Joe concept proud,

in spite of what some people would say. I think

they really lived up to the brand nicely. And

they told a really great story. The one thing

I think I can say I like the best about running

is that it set up the story, and then when it

executed and let everything fall into place,

that's when it was fantastic. Unfortunately,

you know, in hindsight, since it's only a one

-season show, you can say it took a little too

long to set up, but once it was set up and everything

went going, oh my god, the nods, the inside stuff,

really was good. Yeah, once it hit, like episode

18, episode 18 through 26, actually 17, I think,

was Castle Destro, which is when they first met

Destro at Destro's castle. Once they kind of

got to that... point it really started moving

along and doing good things. Once it picked up,

I was a huge fan. By the time this is aired on

the GCRN, you'll still have time. Go to iTunes

and actually Renegade Season 1 is on sale. I

believe it's $39 .99 for the entire season versus

$50. So if you haven't seen Renegade yourself,

go to iTunes, download the entire season, $39

.99. I promise you, you will not be disappointed.

And Greg and Justin and I can tell you that on

an Apple iOS device, that video's nice. Yeah,

it looks real pretty. Yeah, on your Apple iPod

or iPad it looks fantastic video. Next up on

the best list for the year we had GI Joe retaliation

announcements and the trailer which just came

out a couple weeks ago. I think they saved the

best for last for this year because the trailer

was just awesome. Absolutely, it was fantastic

and we've been getting like awesome trailer after

awesome trailer after awesome trailer the past

couple of weeks and I think Retaliation really

holds up to pretty much all of them. I actually

enjoy it more than I enjoyed The Dark Knight

Rises and it's right on par there with The Hobbit

which just came out and also Prometheus which

came out today. It's a bunch of really cool trailers

but yeah G .I. Joe Retaliation was awesome and

probably my favorite part of the whole G .I.

Joe Retaliation experience was more of the social

media hype kind of surrounding it. We had a really

cool network of guys, G .I. Joe fans and stuff

on Twitter who are really getting behind it and

kind of having a chance to interact with John

Chu a little bit as he was hyping up the premiere,

getting the rock involved and just doing some

really cool kind of social media interaction

stuff and having a blast with it. And that night

was one of the most fun nights I've had in a

long time with the G .I. Joe fandom, just the

trailer debut, kind of grabbing screen caps,

talking about it, ranting, raving about it, saying

how cool it was and just enjoying the public

outcry for it. That was definitely a highlight,

not just the trailer itself. Obviously the trailer

is very cool, but all the events. and all the

kind of fan interaction leading up to the trailer

and the reactions from the trailer. Yeah, I mean

to see have a trailer come out that it's like

so hyped up the fan base that they want this

movie out yesterday. I mean, that's fantastic.

And as Justin said, to go along with like the

social media integration, the rock constantly,

you know, hyping up this movie that, you know,

John Chu talking with the fans and just the cross

with everybody getting so excited for it. I mean,

it'll be really interesting to see as the months

go by what more stuff comes out for retaliation

until the movie is finally released. Don't pop

yourself on that train quite yet, Chuck, because

I believe you were bad mouthing it a couple weeks

ago. But with that said... Chuck's not getting

away with anything tonight. No, he's not! I was

trying to just like, you know, keep it positive,

just... Careful what you say it's gonna come

back and get you hey folks Speaking of the train

hop on now because if you're not it's gonna it's

gonna be a full train You might find difficulty

getting on and I think it's gonna be a great

movie And then we'll have transformer fanboys

like TFG when Mike not being able to complain

about it, so Starts there guys. This was gonna

be a hit Okay, and then the best part is is that

John Shue has said that this was just a teaser

and I guess there's more to come So I mean that's

that blows my mind how a two and a half minute

to quote Justin Hell yeah. Hell yeah, exactly.

So I'm fired up. It's going to be a great next

seven months, that's for sure. Six months, jeez.

Alright, next up on the list for the best of

2011 was Jokon 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Gary,

would you like to talk about that a little bit?

Jokon is always my highlight of the entire year.

It's when you get a chance to hang out with your

buddies, you get to go out and you get to drink

some beers, you get to talk to G .I. Joe for

the entire weekend. Best of all, it was just,

it was an honest -to -God layback weekend. All

the sets sold, all the exclusives sold. It really

seemed coming out of this one, everyone was very,

very happy. Jokon 2011 was a hit. I agree, even

though I wasn't there. And it was an excellent

convention set as well. Yeah, and I think a lot,

you know, between the figure subscription service

being announced and between the modern style

set, you know, being hugely popular and selling

out really quickly, it was obviously a very successful

show for not just Joe fans, but also for the

G .I. Joe Collectors Club, which only means good

things going forward. So I think it can be considered

a hit for sure. Speaking of the club and the

figure subscription service that is number four

on the best of 2011 as it was announced at Joe

con and then I did that on purpose Greg. I know

Segway It was announced at Joe con and we've

been getting a whole bunch of reveals over the

last couple months with them showing figures

and giving hints and stuff like that So the figures

don't actually hit till 2012 But we have a lot

of hype going into what the actual figures are

gonna get be when you get them in hand Definitely.

There's another thing where social media has

really kind of turned whole promotional world

on its ear and I'm really glad the club has kind

of gotten kind of used to that whole scenario

and taking advantage of Twitter and Facebook

to kind of branch out and get the word out and

promote this stuff and it's been really cool

to see these reveals here and there and everywhere

and it's been an awesome experience in a very

cool part of 2011. I absolutely can't wait for

these things to start hitting. Let's go over

real quick what we know. It's 20 to 25 a figure.

They're going to be able to take your payment.

And three payments are all in one lump sum up

front. You need to be a club member in order

to participate. So that's a $42 membership fee

right there. You have to pay right up front.

All of them are 25th style carded, single carded,

single bubble figures with the file card on the

back. The 13th figure is free upon your paid

subscription. You won't know what figures you're

getting until they arrive. That's a nice little

thing, yeah. That's a little bonus, a little

surprise. Custom made boxes so to protect your

investment. It's not going to be cheap but I

think it's the fact that it's on our list here

and we think it's something good. We think it's

something definitely good for the hobby. It was

a hot button issue with a lot of people this

year. We'll see come June, maybe come next fall

about how this thing pans out. I think it's actually

going to come out pretty good. I think so too.

I'm getting a good vibe with it. I think especially

with the last reveal being Big Boa that got a

lot of positive reaction and I seem to see more

and more people kind of getting on board, which

I think is definitely a good thing. And then

our final great thing for 2011 was the actual

30th anniversary figures and vehicles. So not

only did we get the pursuit of Cobra towards

the beginning of the year, it kind of transitioned

to the 30th towards the end of the year, and

we got great vehicles like the redo of the Sky

Striker, a redo of the Vamp, the Black Dragon,

the Crimson Hiss, and then a whole heaping...

helping of awesome figures like Law and Order

and Airtight and Sci -Fi and Lifeline and Stalker

and it's probably been one of the best years

in Joe action figures I can remember in quite

a while. It's so amazing just that this is the

past couple of years G .I. Joe has kind of been

considered in I don't want to say a downward

trend but it kind of in a dipping point in its

cycle where you know Rise of Cobra had a little

bit of a negative impact at retail so Hasbro

has been kind of scaling things back a little

bit so you can kind of consider 2010 and 2011

to be. quote -unquote down years for the G .I.

Joe brand yet the figures they've been releasing

have been so awesome and you nailed it Greg with

the examples you mentioned like law and order

and lifeline and sci -fi and airtight and it's

incredible when the 25th anniversary came out

in 2007 I was so lukewarm about it the whole

idea of you know regurgitating what we've gotten

over the past 25 years into one modern style

toy line that just didn't really bring a whole

lot new to the table and in fact was almost less

articulated in the previous brand to see the

difference between the 25th anniversary and the

30th anniversary and how they've really refined

that Pursuit of Cobra style, a kind of modern

military aesthetic. It's fantastic. They've come

such a long way in the past four years and I

agree totally. The 30th anniversary was an absolute

highlight. It's been amazing just seeing the

engineering, seeing the details, seeing the construction

of these figures. Hasbro designers have just

been knocking it out of the park and by far this

was one of the major highlights. I'm a GI Joe

fanboy and a GI Joe Hasbro apologist anyway,

but I haven't had to apologize for a lot of these

figures. because people realize exactly how cool

they are. You stack them up next to any other

toy line out there, any one of them, and I defy

anybody to look at a Star Wars figure compared

to a G .I. Joe figure, look at a Marvel figure

compared to a G .I. Joe figure, and you tell

me which figure is more detailed, more well articulated,

and more well made. You're not gonna find a better

one than the foreign G .I. Joe's. Sum it all

up. Everything was great vehicle wise even the

fact that we had repaints I mean the repaints

were solid but the fact that we got a sky striker

everybody and Every Joe and their their Joe fan

cousins uncles brothers monkey Whatever was asking

for this thing to come back out We'll get there

you got it the fact that they even went as far

as doing some sort of lame Crossover with transformers

for San Diego Comic -Con says something now.

Would you stop asking for crossovers, please?

Thank you. No, not after Starscream you so popular

man. That's all we're gonna get I know, I know.

Deal with it. You know what we're gonna get this

year for San Diego Comic Con? We're gonna get...

Probably another crossover. I was gonna say it's

gonna be a Zombie Viper Transformers crossover.

Well, we'll see how the Transformer fans think

about that. Alright, and there you have it. Those

are our best and worst for 2011 from the guys

at What's On Joe Mind. Well, that does it. You

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Merry Christmas. Hi guys, Phil here from BlogRack3000.

Great to be here once again on the Geek Cat Radio

Network. Mike and the gang have invited me to

take part in this special end of year episode

with our top picks etc. So, as always, let's

do the rundown of my top 5, I think, maybe 10,

who knows. Films of the Year, definitely. These

are in no particular order, they're just all

my favourite films of the year, you know what

I'm saying? So, obviously you've got to go with

Transformers. Dark of the Moon, a huge Transformers

fan. I love the movies a lot more than a lot

of people do. I really enjoy what Michael Bay

does with them. You know, come on, the popcorn

movies, we know that. Everyone complains about

that, but we go into watching him and the popcorn

movies, we know that. I know that, you know that.

We go in for badass giant robot action and that's

what we get. And I love them for that. So yeah,

also another pick this year would have to be

the entire crop of Marvel movies. You know, we're

talking Captain America, Thor, all of those films

are absolutely badass. Thor brought the action

and the comedy, and I think Captain America brought

the heart, so it'll be interesting to see what

that leads into with Avengers in 2012. But yeah,

loved Thor, 3D was great for a change. Chris

Hemsworth, genius pick for the role. Anthony

Hopkins, as usual, It does his whole Shakespearean...

It's Thor's father, Odin. A fantastic movie.

Well, I can't praise it enough. And then on the

flip side, you've got Captain America, which

I was originally thinking would be absolutely

rubbish. I had hopes for Thor, but Captain America

was like, no, come on. It's going to be terrible.

It's got Jim Johnson, who did... Jim Johnson,

I think, too. You get it, did Jurassic Park 3

and then... some of the Terrell movies. And I

was like, yeah, this is not going to work. And

then they put Chris Evans in the movie and were

like, come on, we're oversaturating Chris Evans.

He's been Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four. He

was a superhero, sort of, in Push. I was getting

to play an actor like Captain Raker, but it totally

surprised me. Everyone blew it completely out

of the park. Great, all -American film. Really

captured the heart of it. character and of the

Marvel Universe and the scenes with him being

the puny kid at the beginning before he became

Captain America. Fantastic, some of the best

scenes in the Superman movie I've ever seen,

I think. What are my other picks? Those are my

three. I can't really... I don't know how many

other picks I have yet. Those three are the big

standouts for me. I really... I haven't seen...

I could go through the films I haven't seen yet

which is quite hefty considering I've run them.

a geek blog, which I should be smacked for, but

yeah, on the film side of things, the comic book

movies always do it for me. I mean, I didn't

have an issue with Green Lantern. That was a

bit cheesy as per usual, but I enjoyed it. You

know, there's nothing really that screamed, apart

from those three that really screamed at me this

year, I don't know what it is. It's been a bit

of a lacklustre year, otherwise my brain's just

not remembering anything. Which is probably more

than likely. Bad teacher was pretty good really

for a company. I hated Bridesmaids, that's just

going on. Haven't seen Super 8, haven't seen

Kung Fu Panda 2. Hangover Part 2. Oh, X -Men

First Class. How could I forget X -Men First

Class, come on. Nobody expected anything like

that either. We have X -Men 3. Terrible. Well,

terrible compared to the other two, it's still

kind of a cheeseball flick. You know, Brett Ratner,

I do watch Brett Ratner movies. I mean, in fact,

thinking about it, X -Men First Class, and I

knew that Brett Ratner's other film this year,

Tower Heist, Tower Heist. I would actually put

that on my favourite film playlist, Tower Heist.

Went to see that previous screening, absolutely

loved that film. Again, as I always keep to say,

I wasn't expecting much. I was surprised, you

know, it was Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller, come

on. The two of them had some really nice comedies

together, especially Eddie Murphy with Norbert,

come on. But yeah, I was really, really surprised

with that film. It turned out pretty damn good.

You know, it was a comedy, great sort of old

Ealing comedy, lady killers feel to it. Absolutely

ignored it. Yeah, there's been some, good movies,

but I would say, yeah, you've got Transformers

3, Thor, Captain America, X -Men First Class,

Tower Heist. You know, they're my five picks

of 2011, I think. Oh, come on, I've got to make

it top 10. I've just, as I'm sitting here thinking,

snap into my head, come some more. Rise of the

Planet of the Apes. That's got to be in there.

That's got to be in the top 10 somewhere. That

is a fantastic, fantastic movie that I think

does justice to the original films. in a way

that Burton's version never did. It takes those

original films into account and pays homage to

them and is obviously a prequel to them. It's

a fantastic movie. James Franco is amazing. The

work done by Andy Serkis and the special effects

guys needs to be praised up to the wall. Some

amazing work really brought life to Caesar. Yay.

Fantastic movie, if you haven't seen that, I

would definitely recommend you check that out.

The blue ray looks gorgeous as well, that's that

blue ray. Another film from my top ten. Going

on a bit of a horror angle, Tucker and Dale vs

Evil. A film that seems to be in production forever.

We were hearing about it on the net, must have

been for at least a couple of years. It's going

to be Tyler Levine and Alan Tudyk. Two great

comedy guys, Tyler Levine from Reaper, Alan Tudyk

from Firefly. who doesn't travel as free as the

camp assistant of Sector 7 guy who I can't remember

now. But yeah, Tucker Noah's Evil, it's a horror

film, but it's a comedy. It's a very black comedy.

It's gory, but it's a black comedy. Two guys,

normal, regular guys who get mistaken by a bunch

of city folk for being these inbred psycho killers.

And these city folk think that they've bumped

off a friend, they haven't, they've rescued her,

they try and rescue a friend back and start accidentally

killing themselves. And all the while they think

it's these two guys, they're complete psycho

serial killers, you know, the cliched country

bumpkin in a forest sort of thing. But they're

not, they're just two regular joes who are trying

to be really helpful. So yeah, that's definitely

on my radar. Sticking with the horror themes,

I will say... I saw a film at Frye Fest this

year, which is a big UK horror festival. called

The Theatre Bazaar, which is put out by Severin

Films. Severin may not do a lot of DVD and Blu

-ray releases, but it's an anthology. It stars

Udo Kier, David Rochon, Virginia Newcombe, Katrina

McCall, who was in the classic 80s Italian horrors,

like footy stuff, you know. It's directed by

Richard Stanley, Buddy Giovinizzo, how do you

pronounce that in the iron? Tom Sabini, Douglas

Book, Kareem Hussain, David Gregory and Jeremy

Caston. It's sick, it's twisted. Kareem Hussain's

thing is way off the wall with the women in juxtra

eyeballs. But, if you like horror, it's going

to fly under everybody's radar, I think, and

it's not going to get a big push. So I think

you should definitely try checking that out.

Also on the UK radar, it probably didn't make

that much of a splash in the States though, I

think. would be the big screen outing of a TV

show available here called The Inbetweeners.

It's about four kids at high school. It sure

is about four kids at high school. They're all

a bit nerdy and they'll get picked on. They all

think they're better than they are but they're

not really. And the movie expands on that to

the end of the year. They decide to go out to

Ibiza and pick up girls and whatnot and it just

all goes horribly, horribly wrong. Obviously

being a happy -go -lucky film, you know, we get

the typical happy ending at the end, but for

the most part they really do get themselves in

the most terrible situations. It's full of basically

nobbing tit jokes, but it's funny as hell. You

know, most of my picks this year, besides the

superhero movies, would have to be the horror

flicks. I mean I've seen a lot of good horror

this year. I still haven't seen Drive, I've had

my hands up to that. It's terrible I know. But

I would say out of every film I've seen, every

film I've seen this year, my pick for the year

is yet again a horror film. It's a film again

I saw at Fright Fest written and directed by

the Pierce Brothers, Brett and Drew Pierce. It's

called Dead Heads. It's a zombie. it's like a

zombie comedy about two slackers who awake in

the middle of a zombie apocalypse the thing is

they're also zombies they don't know they're

zombies but they are it's kind of Shaun of the

Dead meets John Hughes but I enjoyed it as much

as I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead you know I'm a

big fan of Shaun of the Dead it's on a par with

that but it's thinking more as somebody's gone,

John Hughes, what if John Hughes made a zombie

romance? And then threw in a bit of Romero. That's

what you've got. Solid script, full references

to 80s movies. Totally reminiscent of Night of

the Creeps, if you've seen that one, it's a great

film. And yeah, fantastic movie. It's probably

gonna add again, it's probably gonna rub in Flanders

with its radar, but my pick for 2011 movie of

the year, Deadheads. Go and see it. I don't know.

I think it's going out on video demand in the

States. We are getting it released in the UK

here on DVD and Blu -ray, I think in January.

Yeah, if you can track that one down, it's Deadheads

from the Pierce Brothers. That would be my pick

for the year, as far as movies is concerned.

As for everything else, you know, it's been a

pretty good year for video games and what not.

I mean, video games for me is always going to

be on Triton 3. Every year on Triton, I'm filling

games out on Triton 3. This year, it's the game

for me. Of course, followed by, I'd say, Dodonpachi

Resurrection, which is a cave bullet hell shooter.

That's a fantastic game. If you haven't checked

that out, that's on Xbox 360. I think it's on

PS3 as well. Surprisingly, the new Rayman game,

that was really good. If you haven't checked

that out yet, I would definitely consider that

one. But I'd say, I wasn't a big fan of Batman

this year. Batman didn't do it for me. I don't

know what it was. It was just something, the

original Batman Half -West Island, I went crazy

with that game. But this year, Batman didn't

do that much for me. Yeah, for me, it's definitely

Uncharted 3, game of the year. You know, the

other big game name, Dead Island, didn't like

that. Batman was okay and didn't really feel

it that much. Some surprises in there. I mean,

I really like the Warhammer 40K game that came

out. Space Marine, which was amazing and the

real surprise of this year to be honest with

you was the new Driver game, Driver San Francisco

from Ubisoft I'm not a big driving game fan,

I love being that I'm not a big sandbox game

fan Driver San Francisco mixes both of those

genres together in a game that I absolutely adore

I've been playing that solid when that came out

I played that game solid too You know, from playing

the demo to playing the actual game, I have no

problems with anything in that game. I swear

it's an amazing game. You should definitely check

that out. On the handheld front, of course, we've

got Super Mario Land 3D, another game which,

to be honest with you, I haven't stopped playing

since the game out. I've been on the special

levels now. I've played Luigi and whatnot. It's

fantastic. It harkens back to The classic Super

Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World on the SNES.

Fantastic game, as is Mario Kart 7, you know.

Again, that I think harks back to the original

Mario Kart, Super Mario Kart on the SNES. Throws

in little extras, the submarine levels, the flying

bits, you know. Great game, it's Nintendo's back

on form with those two. And things like the iPad.

I've been playing, another game I've been playing

quite a lot. Joyride, which is a... Endless run

of game, you're literally just flying the jetpack

collecting coins and doing missions, you know,

collecting so many coins, you've got to spin

past something, you know, get past some missiles.

It's simple, addictive, and I've been playing

it on both my iPhone and my iPad. It really is

a fun game. I think I've played it on more than

any other game this year, I think, on the iPad.

I was playing... I think I've pretty much covered

it on the movies and games front. I mean it could

go into TV, but for me this year TV's been terrible.

The only game, the only TV show I would say that

I've really enjoyed has been The Franklin and

the Bash. So much so that I bought the DVD box

set when it came out. Yeah, there's nothing,

there's nothing screened out in me for line of

TV this year. It's been about, this year's, 2011

I would say it has been about video games. Video

games have made, has been more fun had than video

games be there on, you know, PS3, Xbox, 3DS,

you know, iPhone, iPad, Android, PSP, you know.

There's been more fun had on those consoles this

year than I think in any TV show out there. Movie

wise, it's been a good year. It's not been a

fantastic year, it's been a good year. I think

3D I'm sure there's a day out now. It's just

bumping up ticket prices for films that don't

really need 3D. But, you know, the cinema experience,

I've enjoyed that this year. I've done a lot

more viewing films at the cinema rather than

at home, and that's actually brought a bit more

joy back into my movie watching. So yeah, that's

just some of my picks as part of the Ecast Radio

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