It's a sad day in geekdom as we mourn the loss of two Hollywood greats, plus some woman in Spain is gonna make us all rent the sun. But OnLive is is coming out we've all been anxiously awaiting it, right? ...right? Before a Duran gets your solar money we stuff you mind full of nerd info like Axl's late to the party (again), another Buffy burp, the destruction of Drake, NASA secrets, Kim Jong Fat, Picasso in the garage, sexy Quiddich, Kirby vs. Marvel, Hordes of ratings, the death of the 5 year c...
Dec 01, 2010•1 hr 15 min
Deb and Kommander K ignore their soggy slice of pizza to join us in our wonderful discussions on all the geeky things that happened in this weeks news such as Jossless Buffy, interest-less Underworld, demonic USB, Gigantic MMO, life saving Tetris, modern 911 lol, scary senate bills, a full size Endeavor, mass cheating, lead poisoning (a gift that keeps on giving), Trek online, Batman, Spider-Man, and moremoremore. So cry Huzzah and let slip the hinteles of war!
Nov 24, 2010•1 hr 18 min
Deb and Kommander K join us because something is rotten in the state of Brick & Mortar. But, hey good things happened too, right? Like uber expensive collectables. That's cool, right? Unless you're buying. Then I guess it kinda sucks. Then there's major, awesome names heading up comic properties. That's always fine. Like when Ang Lee directed the Hulk.... um.... and let's not forget the new lizard clones, wizard fatigue, and the fall of rhythm games. All that and a solid gold cartridge kitch...
Nov 17, 2010•1 hr 17 min
We hope you enjoyed the special edition podcasts while we are gone. But time for being special is OVER. Geek Shock is back in this newsworthy week as we attempt to turn of our dark to bring you into the light. Find out about a lack of Dune, and increase of Tiki, personal 3D (cheap!), the dead crush the competition, beluga cocoa, urine phones, Elijah Tron, net neutrality who(?), Depp in the Shadows, Marvel TV, Marvel Broadway, Marvel Casting, and Comic-Con. Big list: 6 Comic Book Crossovers You W...
Nov 10, 2010•1 hr 19 min
It's GeekShock Special #2: WHAT TO WATCH! Master Torgo, 80's Jeff, Dr. Vlarg, Deeb and Commander K talk about what poisoned their impressionable young eyes as children and made them the movie and TV-viewing nerds they are today. Do those tired old shows stand the test of time? Do those crusty old reels of celluloid even stand a chance against today's ultra-violent hyper-sexual fare? Let's find out.
Nov 04, 2010•52 min
It's a GeekShock Special, the first of many! Master Torgo, 80's Jeff, Dr. Vlarg, Deeb and Commander K talk all about the Games (video games, role-playing games and otherwise) that made them the geeks they are today, and how those games stand up to today's standards.
Oct 26, 2010•53 min
We at the Ugly Couch Show Network believe that we would be shirking our nerdly duties if we didn't suggest a healthy serving of Moorcock and Dick for your nerdly intake. Go find some now. While you are searching, we'll tell you about such wondrous things as Bevis & Butthhead 3D, Army of Darkness: The Ride, The top American Authors as voted by General Public, political hackings, and so much more. Have you found any Dick yet? I guess you'll just have to settle for Moorcock, then.
Oct 13, 2010•1 hr 6 min
Oh, it's horrible. So many ugly things happened in the world of Geekdom. Our News You Don't Give a S*#t about section is full, FULL! But we won't let it get our spirits down once you get us off the street. Because, when life gives you lemons, you chuck 'em at other people and that's what you get in this week's Geek Shock; Lemons with NUMLOCK! Enjoy. Warning, NUMLOCK is contagious. If you encounter anyone with NUMLOCK contact your local health provider for immediate sterilization. Not kidding. NU...
Oct 06, 2010•1 hr 10 min
Geek Shock. It's like no other gadget that you've ever seen. Cause it's audio! Today's team takes you on a wondrous journey to worlds where toys turn on their owners, people can't read their cue cards, Michael Jackson gets his own (virtual) planet, Stewart/Colbert get their own rallies, big brother gets bigger, easy date escape, we get an ambassador to space, Flash gets served with a nice Chianti, Black Widow goes solo, Tarantino (and all of us) lose, we go Back to the Theater, and Super Hero co...
Sep 29, 2010•1 hr 9 min
OMG! Did you hear about the time that 80's Jeff and his friend tried to eat a ten pound pizza in 45 minutes? Well, you will on this week's Geek Shock. Besides 80's gastrointestinal issues, you will also learn how not to do cut scenes, how to smell like a book, How to improve the sales of your waning Archie brand, How to screw the people who already overpaid for your processor, how to get Alyssa Milano to be your friend (for 90 days), How DC comics got their movie groove back, How to diversify yo...
Sep 22, 2010•1 hr 12 min
Welcome back to Geek Shock where we celebrate everything geek, even your creepy cousin who always wears his iPod Shuffle while pumping endless quarters into the old Amidar arcade machine at Andy's Pizza (downtown location). This week we talk about Pedobear invading SoCal, $178 cheese sandwich, Resident Evil: Afterlife: Aftershocks, Another mastermind pulls an EvE Online, Marvel Anime, Facestar, the Digital Comics Museum, cockroaches, Dead Set comes to America, Dark Tower triumphant, True Lies so...
Sep 15, 2010•1 hr 15 min
Geek Shock is back firing on all cylinders...even if those cylinders are stting in jail...telling the wrong time. Topics this week include the Leisure Publishing implosion, mafia (and journalism) problems of Atwater California, Hack is Wack, Journey to the Center of the Island, not a Night's Devil, Duke(?), Dream invades TV, nerd poker, Fcc f's U, Battlestar Hogwarts, respect given to the Dead, Molder Kombat, how to be Superior, we lost another funny guy, BAR2D2, Gears of Charity, did you feel t...
Sep 08, 2010•1 hr 5 min
Hey! Where did Couchcast go? Don't fret, buckaroo. It's right here. We've given ourselves a new name like the one you give your significant other in your tenderest of moments. But it's the same sweet smelling geekery, so grab your smelling salts...We're going deep. Today we discuss improv vs. Killer Instinct, Awesomeness Reminders, Snakes and Lattes, Wii intimacy, Zomb1es everywhere, 3D without annoyance, Xbox Live with annoyance, better controllers for the colorblind, Spiderpaul, saving throw v...
Sep 01, 2010•1 hr 19 min
Paul dives deep into his past to recount the great Game Stop Hold-up of 2005 and the great sphincter Hold-in of 2010. But that's not all. It can't be all! We also bring you the Lineage of Craig Smallwood, Harry Popper, Doggy Poo Story - The Musical, Braga's bragging, Voyager rants, Everything's blog unfriendly in Philadelphia, Futurama's theorem, China's not getting anywhere fast, a Portal to higher education, Locke & Key on teevee, and a vote for Blinky. Big List(s): X-Men: First Class reve...
Aug 25, 2010•1 hr 14 min
Yeah, we saw Scott Pilgrim and we talk about it miraculously spoiler free. From there it all goes downhill as we discuss Ray Bradberry and J.D. Salinger, stupid e-mail addys, a Silenter Hill, Star-Ray, a Hamill-less Luke, Klingon opera, Topless Raeliens, the end of a Legacy, X-Platt, Freakin' awesome-enomics, Irrational's Infinite, and phone boy. Also, prepare to gag (not only from the scatological humor) for the Big List is 25 video game movies in development. I am filled with loathsome....
Aug 18, 2010•1 hr 18 min
Barry returns all scotchified for this look back at the the news that us nerds love. It's been a bustling week and we've got the podcast to prove it. This week we discuss Pop-Tarts, Digitized Dance, the raving-idiot rorschach test, the alphabet misunderstood by a bird, a Bakula-less Leap, V-moms, less Star Tube, more Star Cash, a 3 ring binder, all the damn capes, the Gamerator, Scott's Nemesis, paying to be good at games, 404, Donkey Mitchell, poo bug, and taking care of your feet. Big list: po...
Aug 11, 2010•1 hr 10 min
What a rough week. Barry is down and out after eating some bad sausage, so we make due without him. A week after Comic-Con and the news well runs dry. The good news anyway. But the S#%t news well runs freely and we're all gonna get a big gulp. This week's topics include Creation Star Trek Convention jerkitude, Transformers the MMO hates you and western civilization, The Outer Limits of MGM, a trip down memory lane for midwestern dark rides, liberal hate costs $40 a year, We Can Remember It For Y...
Aug 04, 2010•10 hr 8 min
Comic-con is over for another year, but you can re-live the magic through this brand-spankalicious Couchcast. If you missed it, we take you on the grand tour of the Grand Con in all of it's glory with such highlights as: Pen-face costumes, hot girls look at 80's Jeff Twice(!), Guido the RPG, new Battleship crew, all Avengers assembled, geeks smell the glove, it turns out the Goonies ARE good enuff, getting hit by space rocks, Hamilton goes with Chuck (if she wants to live), more grim grinning gh...
Jul 28, 2010•1 hr 37 min
Created from a lab discovered in a basement under our villa, this week's Couchcast gives a 1,2,5 punch to the solar-powered plexus. It all starts off with the horrible TV shows we still wanna see on DVD. We only think they're great because we haven't seen them in years. From there we go on to talk about Comic-Con, Batman Engrish, the madness of King Lee, The madness of fool Phelps, Y the last bathhouse, 8 minutes(!), Darth Vader gets kicked out of the 501st, Bruce Banner gets kicked out of the H...
Jul 14, 2010•1 hr 29 min
We tried. We REALLY tried to get through the show without wang jokes. But, with Paul on the couch... well... we tried. But with the torrent comes all geek joy you can shake a pink limpie at. We cover such diverse topics as the highest paid actor is younger than you, smelling like Bruno, Prince says something stupid... again, Titanic-eyed peas, Pee-Wee Apatow, Futurama...FROM THE FUTURE, Hulu-Plus for less, Video Games Live Tour paid for by viewers like you, Twilight finally kills somebody, the D...
Jul 07, 2010•1 hr 11 min
More fun than shoving a Zebra Cake down your gullet, The Ugly Couch Show Couchcast is here for all your nutritional needs. We'll feed you with classic arcade cabinets, the big Steam sale, Final Dimension5nal Destination, Mafia Wars, Debbie Gibson vs. Tiffany vs. Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, Pattinson the Impaler, Trolls 3, Myers tired, the day we get to Hobbiton, Donner's Woman, Suicide Girls commit Comic-con suicide, Marvel TV guru, Kellogg's waxy box, .xxx, Make-a-Falcon Foundation, Huluplus,...
Jun 30, 2010•1 hr 26 min
Welcome to the Couchcast where you can have it your way... but don't get crazy. Our way is inventing new burgers for In and Out Burger, digital license plates, Burger Box, fake iPads, having it your way at SYFY, government pork vs. unicorn, TARDIS for tuppence, Avatar xxx 3D, The Weirding Way, sci-fi prop docs, Shatner talking about Shatner in a film about Shatner directed by Shatner and produced by Shatner, The Boys are back in town, Strange is back in town, Tron toys, comics go big box, the re...
Jun 23, 2010•1 hr 24 min
All the boys are back plus one as Deb joins us on this E3 extravaganza. But that's not all that happened in this Week in Geek as we talk about Keanu Reeves Day, Indy Jones BS, Extra Twilight, Laser Tag apps, Cageflix, Rockband 3, Kinect and it's games library, new price points, Castlevania, Twisted Starfox, 3DS, Back to the Future games, The return of Manos, Touchdown Jesus is burning, the origin of the great and powerful Oz, the price of homework in Massachusetts, Starfleetclix, Mickey and Wolv...
Jun 16, 2010•1 hr 7 min
Lord, help us. He's returned. Barry is back from his wiener tour of England and regales us with tales of wit and revelry. Actually, just tales about ignoring everything else in favor of drinking whiskey from the tap. But that's hardly all. We also talk about the Unsinkable 3D Cameron, 3D porn, Kardashian Raiders, those damn violent educational games, Harrison putting on the fedora one last time, The worst extended fiction novel ever, Shreck can give you cancer, upcoming Comic-Con panels, Keanu R...
Jun 09, 2010•1 hr 10 min
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition and by "ammunition" I mean "the funny". In this geektastic week we discuss perishable celebrities, good riddance to Tappert rubbish, Cheezburger Night in Seattle (I can has foul ball concussion?), Turtles fished from the Bay, the lack of need for more Alias, Metal Health will drive you to the hospital, Paul cranks the Bernie Higgins, Logan's Run takes another lap, one hobbit leaves The Hobbit , A man in black helps a man in blue, Apples that refuse to play...
Jun 02, 2010•1 hr 10 min
It's Towel Day. Are you a person who really knows where you towel is? In this Ugly little Couchcast we discover many things about the world and ourselves. We learn about the MacGyver movie, why Bruckheimer can't keep his space junk off the screen, why James Franco has gone ape-shit, why a bad spill will be cleaned up by a worse movie, how to buy a horror landmark, the Mass Effect movie, how Zombie Meat is made (hint: it's aged to deadly perfection...in the graveyard), big-assed elevators for sma...
May 26, 2010•1 hr 13 min
Sorry for the LOST week, yet all is not LOST as you will hear in this week's show. Barry is on his "Wiener Tour of England" but we manage to get by with out him as he goes to bang some mash. This week we talk about the Roller Coaster Tycoon movie, Universal Soldier 4, Battle Royale 3D, Blaming your crappy relationship decisions on your phone company, California not putting up with Texas textbook changes, the possible price point for Natal, alas poor Dio - I knew him Horatio, You used game buyers...
May 19, 2010•1 hr 23 min
CouchCast 50 explodes with the fury of a thousand angry suns! Daverator joins the boys on the couch as we discuss Free Comic Book day, Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you), Star Wars Jib Jab, URLs registered by Disney for upcoming stage shows and musicals, The Dark Tower movie, White Castle candles, Commando remake, Batman 3, TomTom Darth Vader voice, X-Men: First Class, Mike Leyde, Bejeweled 2, Power of the Dark Crystal 3D, J.J. Abrams new movie, Cloverfield, William Shatner makes millions f...
May 06, 2010•1 hr 20 min
Whimsical and magical have been Paul's dreams of late, filled with gumdrops and sugar cookies and Don Cheadle, prancing in the spring meadow with butterflies and unicorns. CouchCast 49, on the other hand, is a vile, hateful concoction of malice aforethought. We talk Cheadle, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, GhostFacers, Doctor Who, Matt Smith, Patrick Stewart, David Tennant, Super Street Fighter 4, Batman Live, Ring 3D, Friday the 13th, Leonard Nimoy, Goliath Tigerfish, Legend of the Seeker, Avatar ...
Apr 29, 2010•1 hr 35 min
CouchCast 48! The nerds-in-residence discuss John Malkovich in Transformers 3, a Mighty Mouse movie, Nicolas Cage's 9 foot tall pyramid tomb, the tragic death of Peter Steel, frontman for Type-O Negative, an Avatar Tree of Souls in London, Brannon Braga joining Terra Nova, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Matt Smith as Doctor Who, Kick-Ass, 30 Days of Night and X-Files mashup, Garth Ennis' Crossed as a movie, Stephanie Meyer's Twlight series and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series as challenged boo...
Apr 22, 2010•1 hr 18 min
