TV Ate My Dinner

NOT A VERY WORK-FRIENDLY EPISODE... Real Dolls and Love Dolls are lifelike silocone sex dolls, featured more than once on HBO's Real Sex.  The boys broach the subject as delicately as possible to explore the future ramifications of such appliances.  Are we headed towards an era of android love slaves, as suggest by David Levy in his book "Love and Sex With Robots"?  The world needs to know. Plus w...

What are the greatest sitcoms?  Friends? Cheers?  How I Met Your Mother?  The boys discuss the merits of classics like Taxi and Family Ties while outlining a few helpful hints on how you can avoid sitcom mistakes and Three's Company style misunderstandings.

What is a hero?  Are they born heroes or are they forged in the fires of opportunity and disaster?  The boys talk about Indiana Jones and Captain Kirk, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, and the differences between Batman and Superman.  Who's more heroic - Buffy the Vampire Slayer because she's the chosen one or Angel because he's on a solemn quest for redemption?  And we'd like to introduce you to a ne...

Happy Halloween, world.  In honor of All Hallow's Eve and the modern festival of Samhain, Brooks and Sean put on their scary faces to bring you some of their real-life horror yarns and ghost tales.  If you're a spook enthusiast or a run-of-the-mill Ghost Hunters fan, check out our tribute to the paranormal and the supernatural.

Robot monkeys, cloned cats, smart houses, where does it all end?  Where does it begin?  Will our desire to have sex with robots lead to the Terminator apocalypse?  Did aliens build Stonehenge and the pyramids?  The boys debate the rise of technology and ways it can go wrong, the development of Artificial General Intelligence and what the exponential advancement of computer technology might mean fo...

The long-awaited Robot Apocalypse episode.  Part 1 of 2.

Time Travel, Captain Kirk, sex with robots, women showing their breasts, man junk and the beefiness of Nathan Fillion, Star Crash, Thomas Ian Griffith, Terminator, Star Wars, masturbating with a cheese grater, men called Bacon, men playing with dolls, men trapped in a meat locker, Die Hard Security Guards, hill mutants and how to survive them... Yeah.  It's been an awesome first year.  Hasn't it,...

Fall TV shows return and the boys are ready to have opinions and stuff.  More Terminator talk and some Knight Rider discussion, plus concerns over Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and its production problems.  Some discussion on hidden gems like Adult Swim's Frisky Dingo and Xavier: Renegade Angel, plus some discussion of HBO's Entourage, True Blood and Flight of the Conchords.  Then we just talk about T-s...

What movies should be ahead of Thundercats in the line to get made?  What pop sensations and retro tv shows should get their shot at the big screen first?  The Boys discuss the A-Team, The Fall Guy (again), the Greatest American hero and cartoons with toy lines like MASK.  Who wouldn't want to see GI Joe meets the Transformers?  And whatever happened to the Sandman movie?  And why did everybody bu...

Who are the superheroes who've made the most impact on the pop culture?  From Superman and Batman to Space Ghost and Plastic Man, the boys talk supe to sort the best from the worst and the best known from the oft ignored.

Thundercats the Movie?  Superman gets a reboot with Nathan Fillion as Lobo?  Adrian Brody as the Riddler in Batman 3?  Everything phrased as a question? The boys tackle these and other items of no importance, including a long-overdue tribute to Star Trek Deep Space Nine's front man, Avery Brooks. Also a recap of Brooks and Greg's adventures at this year's DragonCon.

Prepare yourselves for the "Waiting for Godot" of scifi convention experiences.  Brooks and Greg tread the treacherous landscape of DragonCon, the # 1 convention of the American Southeast.  Doesn't sound like they got to do that much, though...

Between Kevin Costner's strange predilection toward playing lovable white trash and the mainstream media's insistence on portraying all Southerners like we just stepped off the set of My Cousin Vinnie, we Waffle House folk don't always get a fair shake.  Greg and Sean discuss this phenomenon as well as indulging a somewhat pointless slam on Sleepless in Seattle and pretty much all romantic comedie...

Tribute to boobs in movies!  Or is it?  Sean and Brooks take a long hard look at the disturbing decline of naked shower scenes and real sex scenes in movies.  Is this a more enlightened temperament in modern film, or a backhanded effort to sell sex to kids by keeping the nudity out of it?  And is the mainstream's sudden shyness leaving the door open for pornography to become a part of our everyday...

This is not a show about disaster movies or real-life disasters, folks.  This episode was a real-life disaster, plagued with production problems, technical errors and equipment failures.  But somewhere along the line we managed to talk about the mystery of twins like Jason and Jeremy London, the Barbarian Brothers, & Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito.  Also, why do dragon movies always suck? ...

How do you survive Star Trek?  Is it just a matter of avoiding techno-tortures like the holodeck or is it about something more?  Is it about knowing how to be like Kirk and overthrowing civilisations for the greater good with kidney punches and scissor kicks?  Listen and find out!

Between Batman's big money and Dr. Horrible's dynamic debut online, it's a good summer for superheroes and supervillains.  Even Hellboy got a little something for his trouble.  The boys talk about what makes Heath Ledger's Joker the world's first scary comic book movie bad guy and discuss where the Dark Knight should go next.  Who will be the next big bad?  Catwoman?  The Riddler?  And what does t...

The boys address issues brought up in their mail.  Lynn from Australia has some additional life lessons you can learn from horror movies, plus some talk about Hancock, Death Proof, and the steady decline of American television.

All things Nathan Fillion, as only TV Ate My Dinner can bring it!  The boys express their love for the star of Firefly and Slither so deeply here that they're forced to take a long hard look at themselves in the process.  Also, quite a lot of talk about the Fall Guy.  It makes more sense in context, people...

This episode's a crap shoot, but you should be used to that.  Lacking a central topic, the boys BS about Dollhouse, the upcoming Joss Whedon project starring Eliza Dushku, some belated praise for the Iron Man movie with speculation about where the Avengers movie could be going.  Plus a hard look at what's going wrong with the new Justice League movie.  We also bring you a new Movie From the Vault...

James Bond, Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer... The boys look at the best of the JB's and offer their survival tips to anyone looking at joining the spy game (on either side).  Do's and don'ts we picked up watching 24's CTU and Her Majesty's Secret Service, and some basic budget suggestions for gadget designers and supervillains who are probably just overthinking their jobs.  Plus a little zombie talk abo...

Is Indiana Jones back, or are George Lucas and Steven Spielberg just dressing Harrison Ford up to try and re-capture their glory days?  We seem to have made up our minds on this one, but you give this episode a listen and decide for yourself.

Highlander 2?  House 2, the Second Story?  Any horror sequel ever made?  Which ones do you think should have never seen the screen?  Should there have been Back to the Future Sequels?  Or a Matrix trilogy?  If Aliens broke the mold, shouldn't they have stopped there?  And what about Star Wars and Indiana Jones?  Is it cinematic blasphemy to re-visit the only perfect movies ever made?  These are th...

In this over-sized long-awaited Season Premiere, the boys resolve all issues left unanswered in last season's cliffhanger finale.  What were the best movies of the nineties?  Why are they remaking Evid Dead?  Is Nathan Fillion the new Bruce Campbell or the new Harrison Ford?  If Indiana Jones can come out of retirement to save the world with crystal skulls, then shouldn't Ash come out of retiremen...

The Crow, Flatliners, Jurassic Park, Diggstown, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Fisher King, Nightbreed, Hal Hartley's Trust, The Usual Suspects, The Prophecy... What do all these movies possibly have to do with each other?  They were made in the nineties, my friends.  The age of the overcoat and the flannel shirt.