Episode 51: A Measure of Comfort

In preparation for the holiday shopping season, WhatTheCast gives you 50% more show in this extended episode … but wait, there’s more! You also get Patrick & Crispy ripping holes in Quantum of Solace, Stephen mourning the loss of The Middleman and the entire cast picking on the reboot of Knight Rider. Plus if you download in the next five minutes, you get listener feedback!

Show notes and a ShamWow after the cut … ok, no ShamWow, just show notes. But it’s ShamWow, whatcha gonna do …

Episode 51 Show Notes

Topic Summary

• REPO with Crispy

  http://www.repo-opera.com/

  http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/repo_the_genetic_opera/

• TRAILERPARK!
  • New Star Trek movie trailer. Does this make you happy or afraid?

    http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/

  • New Harry Potter trailer

    http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/harrypotterandthehalf-bloodprince/

  • Sexy, sexy Watchmen trailer, plus the video game

    http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/11/17/first-look-watchmen-video-game/

  • Punisher: War Zone
    http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/punisherwarzone/
  • Race to Witch Mountain

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjVgR7WQkIM&feature=related

• Listener Feedback (Chris Fisher’s Clause, old comment on our Sherlock FAIL)
• Quantum of Solace – what went right? what went wrong?

  http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/quantum_of_solace/

• TV update?
  • Middleman looks like it’s gone

    http://io9.com/5079850/has-the-middleman-been-cancelled

  • Knight Rider got completely re-tooled (heh, heh, tool)

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i2a6531019c4147a6b48380e465fc31d5

    http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/7998.htm/

  • Sarah Connor Chronicles … will it get Terminated?

    http://www.fox.com/blogs/terminator/2008/10/09/status-update/

  • Pushing Daisies on its deathbed

    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-abc22-2008nov22,0,1894747.story

Final Thoughts:

• Patrick: The Mars Phoenix’s last tweet
  http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/status/999383469
• Stephen:
  • Hot Topic CEO apologizes to crazy Twilight fans
    http://io9.com/5084902/ceo-of-hot-topic-apologizes-to-pleather+clad-twilight-fans
  • NUDIST COLONY OF THE DEAD. It’s a musical!

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102564/

• Crispy: QueerWolf?

  http://www.choconado.com/queerwolf.html

• Brian: Guns N’ Roses album to debut on MySpace

  http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10103315-93.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

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