The Paunch Stevenson Show

Special guests Jim from the Silverball Pinbal Museum, Michael Zapcic from Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash and AMC's Comic Book Men, and Ken from Yestercades! In this episode: the thrilling conclusion to Episode 196, our Yestercades theme song, our review of the Silverball Pinball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ, playing old and rare pinball games, comparison to Austin, Texas, pinball arcade by The Ove...

In this episode: another Paunch road trip on the Garden State Parkway, Bruce Springsteen talking like George W. Bush, What Ever Happened To? (Brett Butler), celebrity deaths (Donna Summer and Robin Gibb), who to blame for the pitiful Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) film?, Arsenio Hall winning Celebrity Apprentice 5, Adam Carolla, Lisa Lampinelli, Aubrey O'Day, our ideas for the next C...

In this episode: celebrity deaths (Vidal Sassoon and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys), the Jackson family's Pepsi deal, Bill Pullman talking like "Macho Man" Randy Savage, the crying wrestling fan, Norm MacDonald's boring golf tweets, What Ever Happened To? (the Saturday Supercast podcast), celebrity podcasts, the upcoming Expendables 2 movie, our movie review of God Bless America (2011) directed b...

In this episode: a Paunch Stevenson Show update: Mel Blanc's voice was definitely used in Daffy's Rhapsody, thoughts on New Girl and college cuisine from new Paunch fan Steve Rugel, calling the Diarrhea Doctor, the Beatles kids band with James McCartney, Sean Lennon, Dhani Harrison, and Jason Starr, new Paunch fans Adam and his son Nate impersonating Stan Lee, spacemandavid's "comment" marathon, P...

In this episode: Cheat our way to episode 200?, our review of The Three Stooges (2012) directed by the Farrelly Brothers and starring Will Sasso, Sean Hayes, and Chris Diamantopoulos, Moe beating up the cast of the Jersey Shore, the upcoming sequel to the movie Twins (Triplets) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Devito, and Eddie Murphy, Google Maps 8-bit April Fool's gag, watching The Big Lebo...

In this episode: well-aged James Lipton, The Celebrity Apprentice 5 starring Lou Ferrigno, Michael Andretti, Debbie Gibson, and Adam Carrolla, old former WWF and WWE wrestlers dancing, the movie Casa de mi Padre (2012) starring Will Ferrell speaking Spanish, riots in Florida over $300 Nike Foamposite One Galaxy sneakers, Masters of the Universe Classics toys, Voltron Classics, and movie Ghostbuste...

In this episode: celebrity deaths (Gary Carter, Jan Berenstain, and Davy Jones), the Berenstain Bears, Paddington Bear, and the Lollipop Dragon, Jason Malachi (the fake Michael Jackson) singing on Jackson's 2010 album Michael, Jaleel White competing on Dancing With The Stars season 14, the fantastic chemistry between Jaleel White and Reginald VelJohnson on the TV show Family Matters, @spacemandavi...

In this episode: our review of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (2012) starring The Rock and Michael Caine, the Looney Tunes 3D animated short Daffy's Rhapsody starring Billy West and Mel Blanc, Greg's wacky vivid dream featuring Eliza Dushku, Eliza's older non-existent sister, VCRs, a concert hall, an airport, and Ed Begley, Jr., a local Red Robin waiter entering a hamburger eating competition...

In this episode: pictures of the So You Want To Be A Dancer guy from our British fan spacemandavid, the "Ringo Remembers" skits on the BBC's The Peter Serafinowicz Show, long-time fan Esteban reminds us of the Robotix (1985) cartoon featuring the voices of Peter Cullen, Michael Bell, Frank Welker, Corey Burton, and Arthur Burghardt, What Ever Happened To? ("Lord of the Dance" Michael Flatley), Mar...

In this episode: the TV show Toy Hunters on the Travel Channel, toy prototypes (Boba Fett with rocket, Thundercats), the Bud Bowl and Puppy Bowl, Madonna being sued by the Girls Gone Wild creator, Giselle Bundchen's chain letter for her husband Tom Brady, celebrity Super Bowl XLVI picks, Roseanne Barr running for President, Pat Sajak hosting Wheel of Fortune drunk, Ricky Gervais's complete lack of...

In this episode: Star Wars movies being re-released in theaters in 3D starting with The Phantom Menace, Rob's Star Wars knowledge derived only from video games, Darth Vader and Jedi hamburgers in France, What Ever Happened To? (Hayden Christensen), Shattered Glass (2003) starring Hayden Christensen, cross-dressing Larry a.k.a. Lana Wachowski, upcoming box office bomb Cloud Atlas (2012) starring Hu...

In this episode: the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, infamous medieval fortune teller Nostradamus, 1980s housekeeper sitcoms (Benson, Mr. Belvedere, Charles in Charge, Who's the Boss?), "Ranger Joe" Dave Coulier from Full House, the 50th anniversary reunion tour of The Beach Boys, a Politically Incorrect skit starring Louie Anderson as Newt Gingrich and Bill Maher as the Godfather, Bored to Death gets c...

Happy new year!! In this episode: a sing off: Eliza Dushku's "Freedom" vs. Paul McCartney's "Freedom", Yoko Ono ruining the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus performances, John Lennon in The Dirty Mac with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards, Rob's genius idea #1 (bomb scare to cancel a sports game), Jean-Claude Van Damme playing hockey in Sudden Death (1995), Rob's genius idea #2 (...

Happy holidays!! In this episode: our movie review of 12 Dates of Christmas (2011) starring Amy Smart and Mark-Paul Gosselaar, the fact that it completely ripped off Groundhog Day (1993) starring Bill Murray, Greg fist bumping Eliza Dushku's giant ring, Greg meeting Bill Maher at his book signing for The New New Rules, people not sharing their photos and videos from book signings, our movie review...

6th anniversary of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part 2)! In this episode: election lawn signs for Stallone and Hogan in Northern NJ, Conrad Murray trial verdict in death of Michael Jackson, more NJ pizzeria stereotypes, get rich quick (the classy pizzeria), celebrity death (Smokin' Joe Frazier), What Ever Happened To? (Judge Mills Lane and Fairuza Balk), Adam Sandler cursing his female co-stars' car...

Celebrating 6 Years of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part 1)! In this episode: Sylvester Stallone's $5,000 Montegrappa Chaos pen, American cheese, chain letters, the Joke Society of America, how Greg and Rob met 25 years ago, middle school madness, celebrity deaths (Steve Jobs- creator of Apple, and Dennis Ritchie, creator of Unix), Steve Jobs' insanity, TNT's Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) TV movi...

In this episode: Paunch luck (East Coast Earthquake, Hurricane Irene, London Riots), recapping Rob's first trip to England, London sights (Abbey Road, London Underground, London Eye Ferris Wheel, Big Ben, etc.), English culture (cuisine, accents, and weather), Rob playing drums on Beatles songs at the Liverpool Cavern Club, lousy British reality television, The Love We Make (2011) documentary star...

In this episode: Family Guy episodes with Frank Welker playing Megatron, were the lack of color and overuse of generic characters money saving tricks by Sunbow after Transformers: The Movie (1986)?, the newly released Star Wars The Complete Saga in HD on Blu-ray, extras, changes, the "Han shoots first" debacle, the history of Star Wars home video releases, Steven Spielberg's impersonation of Georg...

Our interview with Ed Daly, NJ author of the 2011 book Cereal: Snap, Crackle, Pop Culture! In this episode: Rob waking up from his trance, supermarkets carrying more than 90 different breakfast cereals, Ed's reasons for writing his book, his favorite cereals (General Mills Rice Chex and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Kellogg's Special K, etc.), his least favorite cereals (Kellogg's Hannah Montana and All-...

Special guest Caseen Gaines, writer of the first book about Pee-wee's Playhouse (Inside Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Untold, Unauthorized, and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenomenon)! In this episode: the 25th anniversary of Pee-wee's Playhouse, why Caseen wrote this book, thoughts about Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) and Big Top Pee-wee (1988), the appeal of the TV series to college kids, the longev...

In this episode: our trip to Barcade in Jersey City, NJ (microbrew beers and 1970s-1980s classic video arcade games), Barcade running on 100% wind power, Rob's dream about "Macho Man" Randy Savage, the 2011 ThunderCats cartoon show, Larry Kenney vs. Will Friedle as the voice of Lion-O, John Erwin as the voice of Prince Adam and He-Man, Greg's movie review of The A-Team (2010), Paunch Stevenson Sho...

In this episode: Our ideas for re-dubbing the latest Michael Bay Transformers movie, the Rupert Murdoch UK phone hacking scandal, undercover sleuth work by Hugh Grant, Norm MacDonald announcing the O.J. Simpson verdict on Saturday Night Live, cracking passwords using social engineering, the "Ralphige" real Michael Jackson prank call, a fifth child on the way for Kevin Federline, the arrest of form...

In this episode: our giant movie review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) in 3D, starring Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, the ridiculous length of the movie, the end of the shaky camera fad, a list of movies and TV shows Michael Bay ripped off (The Transformers, Superman, The Watchmen, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Jackie Chan's Who Am I?), illogical Duracell battery pric...

In this episode: Bill Murray sings "Star Wars," lack of progress on Star Wars live action TV series, another incomplete George Lucas film: Red Tails (2012), Steven Spielberg will no longer modify his classic films, Kevin Smith's new comic book collector reality show, get rich quick (nutty video game collector reality show), better late than never movie reviews: Resident Evil Afterlife (2010) starr...

In this episode: reminiscing about Macho Man Randy Savage, bad reviews for the new video game Duke Nukem Forever, Duke being able to throw human feces at his enemies, new versions of U.S. pennies, the Bitcoin internet money controversy, celebrity deaths (Jeff Conaway and Jack Kevorkian), Nintendo's preview of its upcoming Wii U, custom made video game consoles (Ben Heck), our review of Super 8 (20...