TVAMD Theater: Playing With Dolls

In this TVAMD animated short, Brooks and Sean talk about the time their college buddy Manlove caught Brooks playing with Star Wars dolls.

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Sean, Brooks & Greg bring in the second half of their centennial celebration with Lynn, Andrew and Tupa. This time the talk turns to absinthe, monster trucks, and trivia.

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Episode 100!

Brooks kicks off our centennial celebration by talking about whose hot in Hollywood and whose not. It started out innocently enough, discussing the questionable attractiveness of Roxxxy the talking sex robot, then it just got out of hand. Greg, Lynn and Andrew are here too, and even Christopher from the Tupacast. We manage to segue into discussing Legion, Pandorum and Avatar, so we do manage to get it on the rails eventually. And this is just part 1 of our centennial celebration.

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Episode 99... Heroes and Villains, Part 2!

Sean and Johnny return to talk about what makes a great villain. Who was the greater villain, Frankenstein or his monster? Is Dexter Morgan a hero or a villain? Why can't we seem to create a Darth Vader or a Freddy Krueger for movies today? Why hasn't Star Trek had a great villain since Khan? Have we just lost the ability to create great heroes and villains?

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Sean and Johnny talk about the state of heroes and villains in movies today, weighing the positive message of Avatar against the disturbing trends in modern thinking that are embracing remakes of Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave.

Indiana Jones and John McClane are helping regular guys discover their inner Batman while bad guys like Freddy and Jason give us a taste of pure evil. So what happens when the line gets blurred? Have we lost our knack for myth building? Will the characters of Avatar endure as long as Sherlock Holmes? Or have we lost the ability to create something new that will stand the test of time?

This blurb makes us sound a lot more profound than we really. We're pretty much just talking about movies.

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Episode 97... Epocalypse 2!

Brooks, Sean and Andrew return to discuss cloud computing and the future of humanity: Is Google offering us a renaissance of learning that will usher in the digital democracy or are they building SkyNet? Or both?

It's your future, world. You decide...

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Episode 96... Epocalypse!

Sean and Brooks talk distributed computing with Andrew. Will the Cloud democratize the internet or will it be the real-life SkyNet? There is also a little follow-up discussion of District 9 and Idiocracy.

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XMAS Special!

Sean & Greg put the nativity in negativity by tackling crazy Christmas shoppers, The new V series and the Prisoner remake, The Men Who Stare at Goats and its depiction of the First Earth Battalion, and the attitude of movies like Back to the Future and Clash of the Titans towards sexual assault.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

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Episode 95... A Show about Nothing

Sean and Greg set out to talk Frankenstein with Lynn, but end up talking about the sexy starlets of scifi and TV shows like V, Big Love, Smallville, FlashForward, the Vampire Diaries, Fringe and for some reason, MacGyver. Somewhere in the mix Paranormal Activity and the Amityville Horror remake enter into the conversation.

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Georgia Guidestones, Part 5

In this final chapter of TV Ate My Dinner's Georgia Guidestones investigation, the boys question the stones for EVP recordings and for a secret psychic message about the world's future.

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Georgia Guidestones, Part 4

As the hosts of TV Ate My Dinner explore the mystery of the Georgia Guidestones, Sean breaks all horror movie rules and disturbs an offering to the celestial pole hole by poking it with a stick. This should not be done.

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Georgia Guidestones, Part 3

As the journey continues for the hosts of TV Ate My Dinner, we finally actually reach the Guidestones themselves. What message do they hold for humanity?

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Georgia Guidestones, Part 2

In part 2 of our epic journey to explore the mysteries of the the Georgia Guidestones, the hosts of TV Ate My Dinner investigate the curious history of Elberton, Georgia, including the sad fate of its original granite monument, Dutchy.

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Georgia Guidestones, Part 1

The boys of TV Ate My Dinner explore the mystery of the Georgia Guidestones, America's Stonehenge. In Part One, our journey begins. There are five parts, so it is not what you would call an A to B kinda trip. Anyone who listens to the podcast ought to know what I mean by that.

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Episode 94... Surviving the Zombie War, pt 2

The boys return with Mudoogul Mudslinger to explore more tips on surviving the Zombie War, courtesy of the University of Florida's Zombie Response Plan, Zombieland, and Left 4 Dead.

Also we discuss Drag Me To Hell's portrayal of gypsies, how investigate a werewolf sighting and the dubious merits of cannibalism.

Happy Halloween, everybody...

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Episode 93... Surviving the Zombie War!

Zombieland and other recent zombie stories like the Walking Dead comic are shifting the focus from surviving the initial zombie outbreak to living in a zombie world. Surviving the first 48 hours of infection is necessary, but how do you make it past the first 100 days? Living in the Zombie War requires a bigger set of the rules, which the boys are happy to provide. Mudoogul Mudslinger joins in the Halloween fun to talk zombie survival tactics, the University of Florida's short-lived zombie response plan, and the new supernatural haunted house movie, Paranormal Activity.

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Episode 92... Guilty Pleasures, part 2

Greg and Sean return with David to hastily answer all the burning questions left open at the end of Guilty Pleasures part 1. They discuss the Disney buyout of Marvel, the genius of Edmund Cooper, the exploits of JJ Armes, the seven gates of Hell, Project Runway, NASCAR and many other topics of intellectual import.

You demanded it, people, so here it is...

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Episode 91... Guilty Pleasures

Greg and Sean talk guilty pleasures with David, mostly discussing the Professor's harrowing run-in with a jellyfish, the True Blood finale' and how EPCOT Center has lost its vision of yesterday's future.

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Episode 90... Bigfoot 2!

Sean and Greg are back with Scary Gary to talk about Bigfoot, UFO's, Facebook and the upcoming James Cameron movie, Avatar.

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TVAMD Special: Sean's Lighthouse Adventure!

Sean and Brooks talk about Sean's recent excursion to the Cockspur Lighthouse at Fort Pulaski. They also talk a little about the Savannah catacombs, the Tybee bomb and reality televistion.

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Episode 89... Adventures in Filmmaking!

The boys get with Lynn to talk about guerilla filmmaking and amateur video production, and indirectly prove that social networking outlets like Facebook are destroying our ability to communicate with each other.

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Episode 88... District 9

Sean and Greg talk about District 9 and James Cameron's upcoming sci-fi fantasy Avatar, re-visit GI Joe and Star Trek for the zillionth time, and somehow end up talking about Superman, warning labels and the exit row on airplanes.

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Episode 87... BIGFOOT!

Greg and Sean go crypto with Scary Gary to discuss the mystery of the Sasquatch, unidentified flying humanoids, the Jersey Devil, Hogzilla, the Loch Ness Monster and Mothman.

Plus, Sean has finally seen Inglorious Basterds, so is qualified to form an opinion.

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Episode 86... VERSUS part 2!

In the inevitable follow-up to VERSUS part 1, the boys discuss TRON vs. the Matrix, Captain Caveman vs. Grape Ape, Han Solo vs. Malcom Reynolds, and of course the Terminator vs. an Allosaurus. Good water-cooler fodder for your next MENSA meeting.

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TVAMD Theater: Patriotic Paragon, the Conclusion!

In this TV Ate My Dinner bonus featurette, Sir St. John C. O'Herlihy presents the conclusion of the Patriotic Paragon serial as well as comedy sketches from Cooler Than You Productions.

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Watchmen Special!

Brooks has finally watched Watchmen, but argues there aren't as many men to watch as previously asserted by Sean and Greg. Was Dr. Manhatten's atomic junk blown out of proportion or is the whole blue business just a big fat hoax?

You decide...

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And check out the Watchmen Saturday Morning Cartoon and other Happy Harry toons!

TVAMD minisode: GI JOE follow-up!

Greg and Sean have seen GIJOE and the results are in! Hear the boys discuss the Rise of Cobra with Lynn and debate previous claims of excessive use of junk in the Watchmen movie.

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Episode 85... VERSUS!

Who would win? Kirk or Darth Vader? A Borg ship or a Star Destroyer? How about MacGuyver vs. a Predator? The boys debate these and other burning issues in this heated episode! Plus we pay tribute to Julie Brown and discuss Lorenzo Lamas' new opus, Megashark vs. Giant Octopus!

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TV Ate My Dinner Theater: The Patriotic Paragon!

In this TV Ate My Dinner Theater featurette, Sir St. John presents the first three episodes of the classic radio serial, the Adventures of the Patriotic Paragon, America's Most Concerned Citizen! Plus some fun extras, including a look at St. John's earlier work.

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Episode 84... Musicals!

The boys go from strip clubs, peep shows and porno to Kenneth Branaugh's Hamlet in this episode that's supposed to be about musicals. They compare the relative merits of standards like Phantom of the Opera, Grease and the King & I to novelties like Rocky Horror, Bat Boy and Evil Dead the Musical. Plus there is a tribute to 80's Johnnie Drama, James Remar, Joe Lamont's Quiet Cool theme song, and lots of unnecessary singing from the boys themselves.

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Episode 83...Tribute to Technology

Reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing, the boys consider where technology has brought us since then. Sure, podcasting and the wikipedia are awesome, but while we're trying to decide whether Ubuntu is preferable to Microsoft Vista, who's developing the next breakthrough technology that will make history the same way the astronauts did? Will we ever have a moon base or go to Mars? And is dark matter even real at all?

Plus we talk about the new Harry Potter movie.

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Episode 82...Toys!

Pulsar the Ultimate Man of Adventure, ROM the Space Knight, Shogun Warriors, Go Bots, Weebles and JJ Armes...

Star Wars and GI Joe weren't the only awesome toys from our youth. From the Mego Star Trek dolls to the Six Million Dollar Man, the boys reminisce about the great toys from the seventies and eighties.

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Episode 81...Revenge of the Fallen!

This Season Premiere marks the 2 year anniversary of TVAMD, and the boys celebrate by going back to where it all began: Talking about Transformers!
There's also some discussion of the new Friday the 13th and still more talk about GI Joe and Star Trek.

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Episode 80...the Unsung Heroes of Star Wars

In this epic Season Finale, the boys discuss the unsung (or perhaps improperly appreciated) heroes of Star Wars. Who are the people (and in some cases, the characters) who made Star Wars great? And who got left behind as it became what it is today?

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Episode 79...Books to Movies with Lynn part 2

This is practically a Jane Austen tribute. We discuss Stephen King adaptations like 1408 and the Shawshank Redemption, but mostly the many faces of Pride and Prejudice, including the new Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. There is also some talk of Harry Potter and Sean does a little Dr. Horrible karaoke. Consider yourselves warned.

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Episode 78...Gaming Part 2

In this long-awaited (if unsolicited) follow-up to the gaming episode, the boys pretend they're going to discuss Dungeons & Dragons and the Star Wars role-playing game, but end up telling random stories about pretty much everthing else. In other words, the usual...

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Episode 77...Books & Movies with Lynn!

In this episode, we pretend to discuss books that were adapted into movies, but we're so excited to have Lynn on the show we just end up chatting the whole time. We talk Lord of the Rings, Watchmen, the viciousness of Koalas, and the comparative virtues of the yowie to the bunyip.

And that's only in part one...

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G.I. Joe Minisode!

In this extract from the Summer Movie Special, Sean and Brooks team with David to discuss the upcoming GI Joe movie. So here's a little taste of that before the full episode is up.

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Episode 76...Summer Movies with David!

Brooks and Sean join with David to discuss the growing roster of Summer movies. From Star Trek and Wolverine to Terminator and the new Transformers, they discuss everything down to Harry Potter and Quentin Tarantino.

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Episode 75...Reefer Madness with Mudoogul

Ever since Reefer Madness, marijuana has had a dubious distinction in the eyes of the mainstream, creating a weird counter-culture of drug movies that celebrate the twinkie-craving outlaw in all of us. From Cheech & Chong to Dazed & Confused, marijuana movies have run the gamut from total crap to comedy gold. The boys look into this interesting entertainment phenomenon with their usual aplomb.

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Episode 74...UFO Sightings

This episode is not really about UFO's (except a little), but we're pretty much all over the place. From George W. Bush to James Bond and the Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion, we manage to rip on Oliver Stone, Paul Haggis and pretty much all TV shows. Another one from the vault and for the books, folks...

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Episode 73... the 27 Club

The boys pretend to talk about the untimely deaths of rock legends like Jimi Hendrix and Curt Cobain (all at the age of 27), but mostly yammer about their new forum, the Bilderburg conspiracy, the new zombie video game Left 4 Dead and the new Star Trek movie.

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TVAMD minisode: Quarantine

The boys take a few minutes to discuss the first person thriller Quarantine and the many negative examples it offers on surviving a horror movie. Plus: how to escape a hungry polar bear...

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Episode 72...Requels!

What happens when a remake becomes more like a sequel (or sometimes the other way around)? The new Star Trek leads the boys to examine this concept by looking at other requels past like Terminator 2, Escape from LA, and the new Friday the 13th. Plus we talk Wolverine, Highlander and the faltering merits of samurai swords in science fiction.

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Episode 71...Mysterious Kryptos!

Computers predicting the future, the mysterious Kryptos code, and other oddities are fodder for this discussion. Did the scientists and futurists of the MERLIN project design a computer program that predicts the future (but for some reason can't see anything past 2012)? Did a sculptor come up with a code that CIA cryptoanalysts can't crack? And what is the story behind the wisdom of the Georgia Guidestones? Listen and find out!

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Kryptos

Episode 70...The Last Stand

Don't get your hopes up, this isn't our final episode...
The boys talk about the dubious ends of scifi series like the new Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Quantum Leap, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Greatest American Hero. In so doing they ask the question: Do scifi finale's always suck?

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The Star Trek Movie Special!

Kirk, Spock and McCoy are back with a sexy new Uhura, Rachel Nichols as an Orion slave girl and even Leonard Nimoy. Is this the Star Trek we've been waiting for?

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Episode 69...Adventures in Backmasking!

The Beatles, AC/DC, The Eagles, Elvis, CCR...
They all at some point had songs with so-called subliminal messages, which apparently can turn you into a servant of Satan just by hearing them. Is there any truth to this, or is it a lot of nonsense and coincidence run amok?

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Episode 68... Horror Movie Moments With Mudoogul Part 2!

From Killer Klowns to Frailty, the boys go over great moments from dubious classics like Sleepaway Camp and Stephen King's Pet Semetary (remember Zelda?) with their friend Mudoogul Mudslinger.

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Episode 67...Horror Movie Moments with Mudoogul!

The Exorcist, Jaws, the Howling, American Werewolf in London, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Killer Klowns from Outer Space...

We're covering it all in this one. Plus the boys discuss the Nightmare on Elm Street remake with our good friend Mudoogul Mudslinger, the horror of 2 girls 1 cup, and the impending doom of the swine flu!

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