The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show

We're living in a golden age of TV and Alan Sepinwall's new book, The Revoloution Was Televised, traces the origins of this renessaince through the history of twelve key shows - Oz, The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Buffy, Lost, 24, Friday Night Lights, Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.co...

Matt Graham (Conan, SNL, Scrabble World Championships) discuss the strategy of high-level Scrabble, his incredible board game collection, and why Scrabble is really a game about math. Plus, how to win without memorizing the dictionary! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jason Michael Paul produces a touring Zelda symphony, and here he explains what it takes to represent the Nintendo brand. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wayne White was a set/puppet designer on shows like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and Beakman’s World, as well as music videos like Smashing Pumpkins’ Tonight Tonight. Wayne is the subject of the new documentary Beauty is Embarrassing, and on this week's show you'll hear from both him and the film's director. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/...

Jason Narvy and Paul Schrier have appeared in several hundred episodes of Power Rangers, making them by far the show's longest-running characters. This week we get their unique perspective on the iconic show. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Robin Rosenberg studies what makes superheroes tick. Here she diagoses Batman, The Joker, The X-Men, Green Arrow, and Buffy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A live recording of the CollegeHumor panel at Comic Con! Jeff moderates a conversation about creating nerdy internet comedy with Susanna Wolff, Patrick Cassels, Brian Murphy, Caldwell Tanner, Owen Parsons, and Andrew Bridgman. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Justin Wong is one of the greatest fighting game players in the world, holding multiple world titles in games like Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Mortal Kombat 9. But how did he get so good? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

First week of the month is usually an off week for The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, but Pat and I were gonna talk about Looper anyway. So we recorded it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week Jeff talks to Jay Levey, who has been Weird Al's manager for over 30 years. In addition to managing one of the most unique and successful artists in pop music history Jay, atypically for a manager, collaborated with his client on the creative. He has directed many of Al's music videos including Eat It and cowrote/directed the stone-cold classic UHF. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co...

Talkin' criticism and Oogieloves with AV Club editor Keith Phipps. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ben Blumenfeld talks about what it's like to design something for a billion people. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show - an appetizer of Expendables 2 chat followed, at 18:30, by an hour of Breaking Bad discussion. We discuss everything through Breaking Bad s05e07 (the second to last episode of 2012).  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Remember the Olympics opening ceremony and the 7,500 well choreographed extras? Ever wonder how they got so well choreographed or where they came from? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Paul Scheer (The League, NTSF:SD:SUV::, the "How Did This Get Made" Podcast, Human Giant, 30 Rock, Party Down, Bob's Burgers, Happy Endings, Childrens Hospital, Parks and Rec, EVERYTHING GOOD?!?) stops talk about his favorite terrible movies. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Streeter Seidell and Emily Axford share their coolest facts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Will Brooker, a man who wrote his PHd thesis on Batman, returns to discuss The Dark Knight Rises. Spoiler warning - the entire film is discussed in detail pretty much immediately. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Metagame (http://www.metaga.me) is a game designed to facilitate arguing about videogames, so I invited Adam Conover (@adamconover) and Jared Logan (@jaredlogan) over for a round. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A look behind the scenes of the classic trivia game, You Don't Know Jack. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pat Cassels, Dan Meth, Sarah Schneider and Josh Ruben celebrate episode 50 with their unwanted DVDs and a dream. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Tommy Westphall Multiverse is a map that charts the crossovers between over 250 shows and unites them into a single continuity (http://bit.ly/B6xHK). In this episode, we talk to the man behind the map. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Two Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show favorites return for two segments - one on E3 and one on Prometheus. Prometheus chat starts around 37:00. There's a very clear warning before we get into spoilers (which we do pretty quickly). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A look back at Game of Thrones season 2 with Jon Gabrus, plus some behind-the-scenes details of the season finale from Dothraki Langauge creator David Peterson. WARNING: This episode is basically nonstop spoilers for Game of Thrones season 2. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Action Park afficiando Seth Porges explains exactly what made Action Park so dangerous, and a bonus story from a previous Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show guest. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Star Trek Experience was an attraction in Vegas. This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, two former employees (and current Star Trek Improv actors) describe what it was like to work there, the customers who came in character, the weddings that took place daily, and which celebrities got hammered on Borgspheres before riding the rides. PLUS! A followup to last week's Andrew WK impostor the...