The Overnightscape Underground

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1:26:00 – In this Episode:

• Paunch boys return to the Chiller Theatre Expo in Parsippany, NJ,
• Hollywood Squares,
• Three’s Company,
• Dial of Destiny (2023),
• Priscilla (2023) and Elvis (2022) biopics,
• Marlon Brando vs Frank Oz during The Score (2001),
• Frasier reboot with Kelsey Grammer,
• rewatching Batman, X-Men, and Spider-Man 1990’s animated series,
• bad videos games you got stuck on (NES Dick Tracy, Genesis X-Men),
• should the Angry Video Game Nerd stop being angry?,
• retro game channels (Retro Man Cave, Lazy Game Reviews),
• copy protection codes from the 80s and 90s, and cracking C64 games,
• AI-generated classic rock music,
• the Beatles Get Back (2021) documentary,
• celebrity deaths (Richard Lewis, Carl Weathers, O.J. Simpson),
• and the demise of Vince McMahon.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:12:13 – In this Episode with guest co-host Lanza:

• Super Bowl Commercials (Larry David, The Sopranos),
• Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s season 11,
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s season 15,
• Jeff Garlin quits The Goldbergs,
• No Time to Die (2021) starring Daniel Craig,
• the fifth Indiana Jones film wraps,
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) starring Paul Rudd,
• Matrix: Resurrections (2021) starring Keanu Reeves,
• 8-bit Christmas (2021) starring Neil Patrick Harris,
• Cobra Kai‘s season 4,
• celebrity deaths (Bob Saget, Bob Dole, Michael Nesmith, Betty White, Ronnie Spector, John Madden, William Hurt, Emilio Delgado, Sally Kellerman),
• rewatch of The Muppet Show,
• The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (1972),
• HBO children’s show Encyclopedia,
• and the early cable television networks.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:03:00 – In this Episode with guest co-host Lanza:

• William Shatner commands a space ship for real this time,
• more Dark Side of the Ring episodes including Dynamite Kid, The Plane Ride From Hell, and Chris Kanyon,
• Ric Flair is in hot water?,
• congratulations to Eliza Dushku and her husband on the birth of two sons!,
• Tracy Tormé IS working on a Sliders reboot,
• Marvel is being sued by the families of their deceased comic book creators,
• and a Norm MacDonald (1959-2021) tribute.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:34:25 – In this episode:

• Caddyshack II (1989) starring Jackie Mason,
• celebrity deaths (Richard Donner, Ed Asner, Charlie Watts, Fez Whatley),
• how AI is used to create video game dialogue,
• Rob didn’t tell Greg he was also at the Rolling Stones concert,
• was Chad Channing truly Nirvana’s drummer?,
• recent TV series that portray the 1990s (People vs. O.J. Simpson, Cruel Summer),
• To Funny To Fail: Life and Death of The Dana Carvey Show,
• Batman and Bill, documentary about the true creator of Batman, Bill Finger,
• and whether pop culture has now passed us by?

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:05:19 – In this episode:

• taking horse pills to cure coronavirus,
• celebrity deaths (Charles Grodin, John Paragon, George Segal, Samuel E. Wright),
• Clifford (1994) starring Martin Short,
• Lon Adams, inventor of the Slim Jim,
• failed Dukes of Hazzard spinoff “Enos”,
• Neil Innes of The Rutles,
• anticipating the return of Terry Silver to “Cobra Kai”,
• Hollywood can now bring every dead actor back to the screen with AI de-aging technology,
• terrible de-aging vs. deep fake for Mark Hamill in “The Mandalorian”,
• Samuel L. Jackson’s UNIX computer interface in Jurassic Park,
• and the Coz is on the loose!

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1:49:29 – In this episode:

• our movie review of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) starring Rick Moranis,
• Norm Macdonald destroying the Carrot Top movie Chairman of the Board (1998) with Courtney Thorne-Smith on Late Nite with Conan O’Brien,
• our local Kmart finally going out of business,
• megalithic former department store Bamberger’s in Newark, NJ,
• Fred Space of NJ’s Space Farms Zoo and Museum died (news),
• boring (or fascinating) presentations given by former video game programmers,
• Rare-developed Dinosaur Planet Nintendo 64 prototype found and shared (news),
• Goldeneye 007 XBLA finally discovered and dumped! (news),
• Greg finally gets a Nintendo Virtual Boy,
• “breaking” trading card boxes,
• Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” vocals line up perfectly to “Hip to be Square” by Huey Lewis and the News,
• Scary Pockets YouTube channel that funkifies hit songs,
• the failed 1985 detective comedy drama Half Nelson starring Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson, and Dean Martin (Video),
• the original MTV Real World cast returns to New York (news),
• refurbishment of the 1929 Loew’s Jersey Theatre (news),
• and celebrity deaths (Dustin Diamond, Prince Markie Dee, Christopher Plummer, Mary Wilson, Larry Flynt).

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:19:47 – In this episode:

• Rob barks up his family tree,
• horrendously slow Race Drivin’ on Super Nintendo finally updated to run at proper speed (YouTube video),
• Chess Boxing (YouTube video),
• review of Cobra Kai Season Three,
• the tenants of John Kreese Karate,
• Celebrity Deaths (Cloris Leachman, Larry King, Phil Spector, Hank Aaron, Alex Trebek),
• Robin Hood, Men in Tights (1991),
• Garlique,
• great baseball sluggers,
• and that time Cliff Clavin blew it on Jeopardy!

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:35:13 – In this episode:

• 80’s voice actors doing high pitched voices,
• our incredibly bland, generic Presidental election response,
• followed by the Vince McMahon election response,
• remembering our buddy Frankie V. of the Digital Press Podcast, and avid fan and collector of Transformers and video games (news),
• also remembering Atari historian and homebrewer Curt Vendel (news),
• new discovery of NES Double Dribble voice samples being corrected (YouTube),
• did Michael Jackson’s â€œThe Way You Make Me Feel” rip off Tommy James’ â€œDragging The Line”,
• Mortal Kombat on the Atari Lynx (link),
• the miserable Baseball Stars 2 NES sequel,
• celebrity deaths (Joe Ruby, Bonnie Pointer, Ken Osmond, Sam Lloyd, Thomas L. Miller, Bill Withers, Eddie Van Halen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg),
• Rob-review of Nathan for You, the Comedy Central 2013-17 TV series, starring Nathan Fielder.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:34:16 – In this episode:

• mega celebrity deaths (Sean Connery, Regis Philbin, Kenny Rogers, James Lipton),
• long-anticipated crossover video between AVGN and Irate Gamer (YouTube),
• $100,000-dollar auction prices for sealed NES retail packaging revisions (story),
• the Larry Bird tomato,
• Saved by the Bell returns on the Peacock streaming service,
• Keanu Reeves, shaved or unshaved?,
• Rob finally watches, and reviews, Cobra Kai starring William Zabka,
• Funny Key and Peele skit: Bobby McFerrin vs. Michael Winslow,
• Sonic the Hedgehog ported to SNES for the first time (YouTube),
• Wrestling with Gaming’s “The Making of Goldeneye N64” (YouTube),
• the touristy Cheers bar in Boston, MA closes (story),
• Evan Ferrante “Tom Cruise” impersonator on AVGN,
• and review of Netflix documentary High Score.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:52:59 – In this episode:

• guest host Lanza218,
• visit to the Quick Stop in Leonardo, NJ, from Kevin Smith’s Clerks,
• where’s Burger King’s Impossible Whopper Jr.?,
• Always Sunny’s “What Are The Rules?”,
• Shameless and Supernatural series reaching their end,
• Netflix has canceled everything,
• the unexpected return of Dexter,
• state of pro wrestling and sports during pandemic,
• Greg suddenly discovers his cousin’s old friend is AEW star Orange Cassidy!,
• Bill and Ted 3 (2020), starring Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves,
• Ghostbusters 3 talk,
• Rick Moranis gets punched out in NYC,
• celebrity deaths (Carl Reiner, Wilford Brimley, Reni Santoni, Chadwick Boseman, Road Warrior Animal),
• NHL 94 Documentary by Pixelated Heroes,
• collecting of NES games,
• when will the celebrity meeting hobby return?,
• WFAN’s Craig Carton documentary on his gambling arrest,
• and the “Sports Pope” Mike Francesa retires again.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com