Geek Shock

What a rough week.  Barry is down and out after eating some bad sausage, so we make due without him.  A week after Comic-Con and the news well runs dry.  The good news anyway.  But the S#%t news well runs freely and we're all gonna get a big gulp.  This week's topics include Creation Star Trek Convention jerkitude, Transformers the MMO hates you and western civilization, The Outer Limits of MGM, a...

Comic-con is over for another year, but you can re-live the magic through this brand-spankalicious Couchcast. If you missed it, we take you on the grand tour of the Grand Con in all of it's glory with such highlights as: Pen-face costumes, hot girls look at 80's Jeff Twice(!), Guido the RPG, new Battleship crew, all Avengers assembled, geeks smell the glove, it turns out the Goonies ARE good enuff...

Created from a lab discovered in a basement under our villa, this week's Couchcast gives a 1,2,5 punch to the solar-powered plexus.  It all starts off with the horrible TV shows we still wanna see on DVD.  We only think they're great because we haven't seen them in years.  From there we go on to talk about Comic-Con, Batman Engrish, the madness of King Lee, The madness of fool Phelps, Y the last b...

We tried.  We REALLY tried to get through the show without wang jokes.  But, with Paul on the couch... well... we tried.  But with the torrent comes all geek joy you can shake a pink limpie at.  We cover such diverse topics as the highest paid actor is younger than you, smelling like Bruno, Prince says something stupid... again, Titanic-eyed peas, Pee-Wee Apatow, Futurama...FROM THE FUTURE, Hulu-P...

More fun than shoving a Zebra Cake down your gullet, The Ugly Couch Show Couchcast is here for all your nutritional needs.  We'll feed you with classic arcade cabinets, the big Steam sale, Final Dimension5nal Destination, Mafia Wars, Debbie Gibson vs. Tiffany vs. Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, Pattinson the Impaler, Trolls 3, Myers tired, the day we get to Hobbiton, Donner's Woman, Suicide Girls co...

Welcome to the Couchcast where you can have it your way... but don't get crazy.  Our way is inventing new burgers for In and Out Burger, digital license plates, Burger Box, fake iPads, having it your way at SYFY, government pork vs. unicorn, TARDIS for tuppence, Avatar xxx 3D, The Weirding Way, sci-fi prop docs, Shatner talking about Shatner in a film about Shatner directed by Shatner and produced...

All the boys are back plus one as Deb joins us on this E3 extravaganza.  But that's not all that happened in this Week in Geek as we talk about Keanu Reeves Day, Indy Jones BS, Extra Twilight, Laser Tag apps, Cageflix, Rockband 3, Kinect and it's games library, new price points, Castlevania, Twisted Starfox, 3DS, Back to the Future games, The return of Manos, Touchdown Jesus is burning, the origin...

Lord, help us.  He's returned.  Barry is back from his wiener tour of England and regales us with tales of wit and revelry.  Actually, just tales about ignoring everything else in favor of drinking whiskey from the tap.  But that's hardly all.  We also talk about the Unsinkable 3D Cameron, 3D porn, Kardashian Raiders, those damn violent educational games, Harrison putting on the fedora one last ti...

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition and by "ammunition" I mean "the funny".  In this geektastic week we discuss perishable celebrities, good riddance to Tappert rubbish, Cheezburger Night in Seattle (I can has foul ball concussion?), Turtles fished from the Bay, the lack of need for more Alias, Metal Health will drive you to the hospital, Paul cranks the Bernie Higgins, Logan's Run takes anoth...

It's Towel Day.  Are you a person who really knows where you towel is?  In this Ugly little Couchcast we discover many things about the world and ourselves.   We learn about the MacGyvermovie, why Bruckheimer can't keep his space junk off the screen,  why James Franco has gone ape-shit, why a bad spill will be cleaned up by a worse movie,  how to buy a horror landmark, the Mass Effect movie, how Z...

Sorry for the LOST week, yet all is not LOST as you will hear in this week's show.  Barry is on his "Wiener Tour of England" but we manage to get by with out him as he goes to bang some mash.  This week we talk about the Roller Coaster Tycoon movie, Universal Soldier 4, Battle Royale 3D, Blaming your crappy relationship decisions on your phone company, California not putting up with Texas textbook...

CouchCast 50 explodes with the fury of a thousand angry suns!  Daverator joins the boys on the couch as we discuss Free Comic Book day, Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you), Star Wars Jib Jab, URLs registered by Disney for upcoming  stage shows and musicals, The Dark Tower movie, White Castle candles, Commando remake, Batman 3, TomTom Darth Vader voice, X-Men: First Class, Mike Leyde, Bejeweled...

Whimsical and magical have been Paul's dreams of late, filled with gumdrops and sugar cookies and Don Cheadle, prancing in the spring meadow with butterflies and unicorns.  CouchCast 49, on the other hand, is a vile, hateful concoction of malice aforethought.  We talk Cheadle, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, GhostFacers, Doctor Who, Matt Smith, Patrick Stewart, David Tennant, Super Street Fighter 4,...

CouchCast 48!  The nerds-in-residence discuss John Malkovich in Transformers 3, a Mighty Mouse movie, Nicolas Cage's 9 foot tall pyramid tomb, the tragic death of Peter Steel, frontman for Type-O Negative, an Avatar Tree of Souls in London, Brannon Braga joining Terra Nova, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Matt Smith as Doctor Who, Kick-Ass, 30 Days of Night and X-Files mashup, Garth Ennis' Crossed...

CouchCast 47 is a scandalous wench of ill repute, covered in the foul discharge of a thousand murderers.  We talk about the star trek the experience prop sale in las vegas, how chad boutte is a douchebag, pinball hall of fame broken into, planet of the apes movie, tim burton, nintendo, pokemon black and white, starcraft match fixing and illegal betting in korea, the green lantern movie costume, st...

Roll for initiative!  CouchCast 46 is a seething, roaring mass of geekery.  We discuss Xbox Live's GameRoom, Chatroulette, Lucasfilm Animation's Star Wars TV Comedy series, E*Trade talking babies film, Stan Lee Media lawsuit dismissed, SiliFulin robotic tail, Comic-Con news: $753 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, Red Letter Media's Attack of the Clones Review, Joss Whedon direc...

CouchCast 45 is a serendipitous hootenanny of flagrant excess and geekotronic ineptitude.  I have no ideas what that means. We discuss April fools, Godzilla, Spy hunter, Burger King's 404 Marketing, Iron Man 2 cologne, edible gold food spray, anti-piracy internship from Warner Bros, Gamestop lawsuit over used games, James Cameron's disdain for DVDs, FearFest, 24 and Scrubs cancelled, Malificient f...

It's CouchCast 44!  Apologies for it being delivered to you a couple days late, but even geeks get caught up doing real life stuff now and then.  We discuss the latest in geek news including Rear Gear, Brannon Braga, Blockbuster's bankruptcy, bhut jolokia ghost chili peppers, Chris Evans as Captain America, Jonah Piretti, NASA's office of planetary protection, Michael Atkinson, Green Lantern, Warn...

CouchCast 43 is a sloppy drunken harlot crying in the bathroom because she didn't get a birthday cake.  We discuss Barry's whisky and wiener tour of England, London Expo, Batman: Arkham Asylum - Game of the Year Edition, 3D support for games, Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Pokewalker, Avatar on DVD, He-Man booze, nocturnal emissions, Temuera Morrison as Abin Sur in Green Lantern, Peter Grav...

Dave-erator joins the crew on the ugly couch as we discuss the week in geek: Lady Gaga track pack for Rock Band, Battlestar Galactica browser based MMO, Capcom Street Fighter IV for iPhone, In The Beginning by John Fusco and David Cunningham, Fright Night remake by Craig Gillespie and Marti Noxon, Marvel's ultimate comic fan's TV, a relaunched Police Academy movie, Reign of Fire, Pet Sematary rema...

Bah Weep Granah Weep Ninni Bong!  Episode 41 is a slathering amphibious mass of bile and fecundity.  Let's talk some geek. We've got nerds vs jocks, the trem "hella" as a unit of measurement, taylor lautner, max steel, stretch armstrong, hasbro, mattel, club eternia, he-man, skeletor, lex luthor, robert kirkman, walking dead, sonic boycott, buy nothing day, showgirls 2, george r. r. martin, song o...

A candid interview with Comic-Con's Director of Marketing & PR regarding the rumors about Comic-Con International's possible change of venue Barry Robb - www.uglycouchshow.com February 28, 2010 Every summer for over 40 years, geeks of all walks of life have descended upon San Diego by the tens of thousands to attend Comic-Con International, a non-stop 5-day mega-convention celebrating comics, movi...

Like a one legged monkey butler on a benzedrine high, it's CouchCast 40.  We're talking about a Doc Savage movie, a Missile Command movie, the A-Team comic, James' Cameron's Avatar prequel story, Willow novels, the possibility of Comic-Con moving away from San Diego, Joss Whedon & Morgan Spurlock's comic-con documentary, Dungeons and Dragons with Porn Stars, DC Entertainment, Shit My Dad Says star...

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

Couchcast 39 is an obstinate, pretentious bitch, with a hints of oak and despair, and a black currant afterthought.   Vernon Wilmer and the Dave-erator join us on the ugly couch to discuss the Edward Cullen ManPillow, Jaws remake in 3d, Roland Emmerich taking on Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, Computer Engineer Barbie, girls with glasses, fang bangers, thought crimes and free speech on Xbox Live...