Episode #163 - "Hey, You're Not The Avengers!" - Show Notes

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Alternate Titles: "Super-Shame Me" or "88% of Something" or "T. Rex Machina" or "Penelope Tonto & the Heapsters"

• Tonight's Beverages: Water (Dirk); Black Cherry Jim Beam (Otto) 
• Opening boilerplate to encourage subscriptions and the benefits of FaceSpace Likes and Twitter follows like tons of free PC games.
• Referenced: The "Ziggy Piggy" scene from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure:
  
  
• Mop-up items from previous episode.
• Zoe Bell came out of stunt retirement to double Cate Blanchett in Thor: Ragnarok.
• What we're doing with our charitable donation from our Patreon receipts and how the controversial changes Patreon had announced were now not happening.
• Dirk's Tales of the Bargain Ninja® as he recounts his Black Friday exploits. Here's his haul:
  
  19 BDs, 9 UHDs, 2 TV seasons BDs, 5 Xbox One, 4 PS4 games = $211. With Gamefly and Target buys, he picked up 12 games which would've cost $720 new for $98. Patience saves $$$$$$$!!!
• RIP Smithereens leader Pat DiNizio.
• First Music Break: The Smithereens, "Behind the Wall of Sleep"
• Bryan Singer fired from the Freddie Mercury biopic.
• The lightning speed with which Ridley Scott replaced Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer for All the Money in the World. Both versions of the trailer:
  
• YouTube channel Every Frame A Painting announces they're packing it in.
• The hilarious deconstruction of Jurassic World and how it pales compared to Aliens:
  
• Movie trailers on parade with Avengers: Infinity War:
  
  Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom:
  
  Alita: Battle Angel:
  
  Referenced: The Graham Norton Show segment about Amanda Seyfried's eyes:
  
  Ready Player One:
  The Easter Egg breakdown video:
  
  Black Panther international trailer:
  
• Second Music Break: The Smithereens, "House That We Used To Live In"
• Our full-spoiler talk about Justice League. 
• Fact Check: The director of The Last Seduction and Red Rock West is John Dahl. 
• Dirk's rapid reviews of Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, Hired Gun - Otto's thoughts on Family Band: The Cowsills Story (Amazon Prime link) -  The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
• Referenced: The opening sequence and Rihanna's scene from Valerian:
  
  
• Third Music Break: The Smithereens, "Only A Memory"
• Co-creators Bryan Fuller and Michael Green have abandoned American Gods.
• Netflix renews Stranger Things, The Punisher, will do a shorter final season of House of Cards, puts out a trailer for Altered Carbon, and announces Black Mirror S4's release date and S2 of Jessica Jones (March 8, 2018).
• Is Netflix shaming their viewers with tweets or is it just harmless fun?
• A new Marvel Rising cartoon series incoming.
• Discussion of the concluded first half of The Walking Dead S8. 
• Referenced: The RocketJump video How Star Wars Was Saved In The Edit:
  
• Ash vs. Evil Dead is now on Netflix, so now no excuse to not watch it.
• Fourth Music Break: The Smithereens, "A Girl Like You"
• Fact Check: The backing vocals on "A Girl Like You" were sung by Maria Vidal.
  
• Dirk recommends the Xbox One X for those wanting a PC gaming experience on a budget. 
• Excellent in-depth performance evaluations for consoles and games at Digital Foundry on YouTube.
• Dirk deploys his home theater experience to advise on what kind of 4K TV to get and the mandatory feature it needs to have and all the competing HDR formats.
• The go-to TV review site is Rtings.com. It's the savvy purchaser's first stop when shopping for TVs. 
• Dirk talks about the new Apple TV 4K and how to Bargain Ninja® cheap 4K movies from sites like Digital Movie Empire. (That link is Dirk's personal bookmark dropping you into the iTunes section with 48 movies per page, cheapest ones first.)
• Fifth Music Break: The Smithereens, "Blues Before & After"
• Another round-up of sexual predators kicking off with Democrat Rep. John Conyers and Sen. Al Franken as well as Republican Rep. Trent Franks resigning/retiring/rewhatevering.
• Danny Masterson fired after the double-standard Netflix was applying to him and Kevin Spacey blew up when a Netflix veep said they didn't believe the women to an accuser. 
• Gabriel Byrne says shooting of The Usual Suspects was shut down a couple days because of Spacey's antics.
• The tape of Corey Feldman's 1993 police statement has been found. 
• Rose McGowan lashes out at her Charmed co-star Alyssa Milano for supporting Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein's so-to-be-ex-wife, and Meryl Streep for being a lying hypocrite. She also doesn't approve of the plan of actresses to wear all-black to the Golden Globes to raise awareness of the rampant grabassing.
• Mia Kirshner calls on mega-agency CAA to create an infrastructure to combat all the raping. 
• Terry Crews is suing his assaulter and his agency.
• Today show host Matt Lauer sacked after 20 years because he didn't know boundaries. They even had a sketch on the show where he was harassing his co-workers.
• NPR cornball hero Garrison Keillor is now woebegone because grabby-grabby. 
• Referenced: Vogon poetry as portrayed in the original BBC miniseries of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and not the terrible movie:
  
• Other journoweasels include Ryan Lizza of New Yorker fired; PBS host Tavis Smiley suspended; and Chris Matthews had NBC pay a $40K settlement in 1999, but remains employed.
• Bryan Singer is being sued for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy.
• The Flash and Supergirl producer Andrew Kreisberg is now fired from those shows. 
• Jenny Lumet (daughter of director Sidney Lumet) says Russell Simmons raped her and he announced he'd be stepping away from his empire then the NYT named three more victims.
• Super-Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock says he's a cheating rapey guy for some reason.
• Metropolitan Opera impresario James Levine accused by three men of doing stuff.
• Celebrity chefs Mario Batali and Jimmy Iuzzini have their problems, too.
• ESPN suspends Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis for double-dipping chips sexual harassment charges.
• Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein company hit with a class-action lawsuit from six women. 
• Salma Hayek's harrowing tale of the abuse she suffered from Harvey while trying to produce Frida. 
• Peter Jackson says the Weinsteins were blackballing Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino. Harv says did not, but Terry Zwigoff says did too!
• Matt Damon steps in it again and post-taping, his Good Will Hunting co-star, Minnie Driver (with Alyssa Milano brigading along), smacked him around.
• ScarJo and SNL's Colin Jost are official a thing after months of rumors. 
• The Rock has an interesting story about Hulk Hogan's headband.
• Last US commercial flight of the Boeing 747 happened.
• RIP: Julio Oscar Mechoso; Endless Summer director Bruce Brown; and Bob Givens, the designer of Bugs Bunny.

Unused Alternate Titles: "Is Ben The Brains of the Outfit?" or "We're Picky That Way" or "The William Hung of the Olympics" or "Looks Dark, Looks Huge" or "Star Lordy" or "In A Jurassic World" or "No Problems You Can't Solve With Money" or "Lex Luthor's T-Pain Yacht" or "Mena Suvari's Grumpy Sister" or "Tie It Into K-Pax" or "Tone-Pulse Switchable" or "ReTARDIS" or "Walker On The Stick" or "Dances With Trash" or "One-Word Character" or "Touching The Merchandise" or "Vogon Poetry" or "Use The 'I Was Drunk' Excuse" or "Pick of That Litter"


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