Geek Shock

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...

It's CouchCast 38: the Attack of the Sequels!  We talk Confessions of a Super Hero, costumed characters on the Las Vegas strip, generous donations from our wonderful fanbase, Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who, celebrity tarot lounge, Ghostbusters 3, Bill Murray, Zombieland, Dethklok's Mordhaus fountain from Metalocalpyse, the auction of props and costumes from Star Trek: the Experience, Daredevil reboot, Ni...

CouchCast 37 brings you the 20 Laws of Nerddom!  We also discuss George Lucas making an animated movie, an animated Joe Dirt, Gatchaman, upper deck lawsuit concerning counterfeit yu-gi-oh cards, the passing of Zelda Rubenstein and J.D. Salinger, Poltergeist, austrek 2, superman returns, superman 4: the quest for peace, Paul's fucked up childhood, He-man and The Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Mac...

Couchcast 36 welcomes back The Famous Paul from his exile to the ocean!  We discuss a Mortal Kombat movie remake, William Shatner to host RAW, Tony Hawk Ride 2, Baby and Me for Wii, Dungeons and Dragons taken away from prison inmate, Sonic the Hedgehog roller coaster, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Avatar is the #1 movie of all time, AMC's Walking Dead series, i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es 1nit...

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

CouchCast 34 is a nerd-splosion of new years news!   We talk Frank Henenlotter's Bad Biology, a 5-disc Back to the Future Blu-Ray set with Jaws19 in 3D, the life and times of Lady GaGa in comics, Star Trek wetsuits, Near Death Studios' Meridian 59, Def Leppard cartoon and video game, Avatar and James Cameron, Wallet Pop price comparisons, Dragon Age: Awakening (a Dragon Age: Origins expansion), EA...

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

CouchCast 32?  Already?  Let's talk Dragon Age comics, Zachary Quinto in Star Trek Online, Assassin's Creed II DLC packs, Microsoft's user-health-generated avatars, Good Old Games sale, Magneto origin movie not happening, Dante's Inferno marketing, Lawrence Fishburne in Predators, Dan O'Bannon dead at 63, Red Letter Media's deconstruction of Star Wars Episode 1 the Phantom Menace, Spider-Man 4 hal...

It's almost christmastime here at the the Ugly Couch Show, and CouchCast 31 delivers like a drunken Santa all hopped up on bennies and cough syrup!  We talk about Grant Morrison's biopic, one-more-turn-itis, geeky christmas ornaments, nintendo's next console, playstation network, age of conan and mmo subscriptions, paranormal activity's iphone comic, zombie roadkill on fearnet, paul reubens (pee-w...

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

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

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

In CouchCast27 the crew discusses shooting people in an airport and other pros and cons of the supposedly controversial "No Russian" level of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, mass layoffs at EA and Pandemic studios, a kidnapper forcing his detainee to buy him a gaming console, why to buy a PS3, Jeff's video technology snobbery, Stephen King's next Dark Tower book, Buffy animated web comic voice cast...

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

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

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