Show #33: Watch out for the Trunk Monkey!
We are finally back from a long vacation with Show #33. There's plenty to talk about, so check out the podcast and look at the notes below. Watch out for those earworm songs, they will get stuck in your head...
Show Links
That darn Trunk Monkey will sneak up on you.
Here's a montage of the Suburban Auto Group ads...
Comic-Con comes to San Diego every July.
Crazy costumes, movie and TV stars and lots and lots of people!
Check out the madness...
The Random Top 5 List
A new segment that we added in this show...we will introduce a new top 5 list somewhere in the show. This time we gave our Top 5 Mascot Names.
Doug's Top 5
- Fisher H.S. Bunnies
- Any Olympic mascot
- Stanford Cardinal (Doug said "Crimson")
- Tennessee Volunteers (where's the mascot?)
- Montgomery Biscuits
Jamie's Top 5
- Hoopeston H.S. Cornjerkers
- UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
- Cobden H.S. Appleknockers
- San Benito H.S. Haybalers
- Campbell Fighting Camels
TV
The TV landscape has been dominated by the Olympics in Beijing for the last two weeks. Much like our new superhero, Michael Phelps...
- Check out the winners of the Baby Ruth Take Me Out to the Ballgame contest and the Gillette Next Phenom contest.
- Estelle Getty passed away at age 84 on 7/23/08. She was a favorite of many on the TV show The Golden Girls.
Bonus video: Estelle starring opposite Sylvester Stallone in Stop or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)...
- Heroes returns on 9/22/2008. The "Going Postal" webisodes are on the website.
- The Office also has webisodes.
Music
Weezer has a new album out. It has been getting a lot of play from the song "Pork and Beans." Check out their website for all of the cool songs they have had over the years. Our favorites include "Island in the Sun", "Buddy Holly", "Say It Ain't So" and "Beverly Hills." You can check out a live performance over at Yahoo. Also, the very funny video for "Pork and Beans" is over at YouTube.
Movies
Discussed in this show:
- The Dark Knight (2008) - Bonus: Check out the Lego Batman video game.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - Bonus: Check out information on the Cartoon Network series.
- Hancock (2008)
- Space Chimps (2008)
- The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
- I Am Legend (2007)
- Vantage Point (2008)
Pop Culture Confessional
Confession for what is your all-time favorite animated movie:
Trevor likes Finding Nemo...
This week's question is: What is your most despised "ear-worm" song?
Doug's Confession:
Yes, I am a slacker. I will have my confession ready for the next show.
Jamie's Confession:
Theme song from The Road Runner Show
Listener Confessions:
Christophe despises The Ting Tings and their song "Shut Up and Let Me Go".
Paula can't get "Handlebars" by Flobots out of her head.
Stacy wrote in to say that OMC's "How Bizarre" drives her crazy...
Jeff told us that "It's a Small World" is hard to erase from his mind...
PJB says of Rhianna's "Umbrella": "I hate that song." 'Nuff said...
New question: What is your favorite sports-themed movie?
Call or write to us and confess the movie that gets your competitive spirit going...
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Bonus Earworm song...."Give me a break, give me a break, break me off a piece of that..."
Labels: Clone Wars, Comic-Con, Dark Knight, Earworms, Estelle Getty, Heroes, Mascots, Michael Phelps, Olympics, The Office, Trunk Monkey, Weezer