On this episode of audio weirdness …

• Crispy & Stephen get spoilery as they show their love for Portal 2 … you monster.
• Game of Thrones and Doctor Who are firing on all cylinders (and we may give out a few spoilers … whoops)
• WhatTheCon talks about Dragon*Con (again). We have some great guests, including Jonathan Coulton (you know, that guy from Portal 2).
• Brian unplugs from TV to watch some cool webseries … check out Mortal Kombat: Legacy and Pioneer One if you haven’t exceeded your bandwidth caps.
• Crispy, Brian & Stephen wish Jim Cantore would check into FourSquare so our friends know when to duck and cover.
• Of course there’s more, so why don’t you listen …

Note: we recorded this episode before a large wave of tornadoes swept through Alabama and Georgia. We have friends affected by the storms, but fortunately none of them lost their lives. Others were not so lucky. Please consider giving prayers, thoughts, blood, time or money to help those in need.

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The cast is back, trying to record a show before Brian disappears for AnachroCon and a ten day trip to Germany. Brian, Stephen & Crispy discuss all sorts of nonsense … zombie video game trailers pretending to be short movies, the space shuttle’s swan song and FOX News getting called out by bloggers (again). We also discover how packing for two weeks of convention and business travel tests the limits of Brian’s underwear selection.

It’s another episode of WhatTheCast, so anything can happen!

It’s another live episode of WhatTheCast, so anything is possible. We talk conventions, movies, Dalek toys, awards and crazy Indian robot cinema. I could go on, but seriously …

Listen to this episode and see what all the fuss is about …

This episode has Brian, zombies, Crispy, dancing video games, Stephen, strange experiments with big bangs, Patrick, talk show hosts returning from the grave and pencils from the future. Yeah, we’re not sure what happened either. Just download and listen … please …

Show Links:

• Best Buy Employee Gets Down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IbScGO0PXg
• House On The Rock: http://www.thehouseontherock.com/
• RevolutionSF Podcast: http://revolutionsf.libsyn.com/

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Ok kids … pack your kilts, stick some gears on old waistcoats and find those Vulcan ears. Geek Media Expo 2010 is only days away (October 22-24) and WhatTheCast is ready to take it over.

Saturday brings the madness that is Race of the Tauntauns … a sack race using sleeping bags that look like tauntauns from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (you know, the movie that didn’t suck). Contestants can use the ThinkGeek edition sleeping bag or their own creation, but they must complete the course while avoiding our twisted obstacles (cue evil laugh). Contestants also have to survive Crispy and Brian’s sportscaster commentary, adding another degree of difficulty to the event.

The live WhatTheCast recording is at noon on Sunday (Oct 24th), so you have plenty of time to grab brunch before we recap a fantastic geek weekend. We’re also hanging out on the “Geek Journalism” panel (Saturday at 5:00pm).

Stephen brings the science (SCIENCE!) to the show on two panels … “Science of the Whedonverse” (Saturday at 2:00pm) and his awesome “There Ain’t No Stealth in Space” presentation (Sunday at 1:00pm).

We’ve also got friends along for the ride. Garret Wang, Voyager crew member and director of Dragon*Con Star Trek programming, is bringing his personal brand of fun to the show. GMX also added the Sci-Fi Janitors (Bob and Carl) to the guest list (if you don’t clean up after yourselves they will call you out … you have been warned). It’s a great guest list so there’s something to do when we’re not on stage.

The whole GMX schedule is here in PDF: http://www.whatisgmx.net/GMX-Vol2-Schedule.pdf (subject to change without warning)

In this episode, the entire cast assembles to discuss our time at Dragon*Con, the upcoming trip to GMX, the latest in TV failures, a little bit of TV win and what happens when you cross a movie monster with a 70′s buddy cop show.

The whole cast is back for this episode, where Patrick is willing to visit the other cast members and forcefully explain why we should agree with his review of Iron Man 2 (just kidding, we agree to disagree … I think). We’re also talking about Dragon*Con, GMX, TV and the Smart Pop Books contest (enter before July 1st).

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• TV shows that got the axe in 2010, and how this relates to the ending of Lost
• Our awesome friend Eugie Foster winning a Nebula award
• Why it’s cool to vote in the Hugo Awards
• WhatTheCon discusses Dragon*Con and GMX
• A Doctor Who discussion so long that Claire dumps Brian for his one-hearted clone and Stephen regenerates in the middle of the podcast … he still has no hair.
• You can win a free book from Smart Pop Books! Listen to the episode to find out more.

Thanks to Claire, Wendy and Jason for helping out with this episode.

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Brian, Crispy and Stephen are all over the map in this episode of WhatTheCast.

• We spoil Doctor Who for anyone who isn’t using “BT Airlines” to watch the show.
• We discuss the poorly titled ‘Furry Vengence’, the potentially poorly planned ‘Robin Hood’ prequel and the creepy ideas behind ‘Human Centipede (First Sequence)‘.
• Stephen raves about ‘Kick Ass’
• Crispy mourns the loss of ‘Legend of the Seeker’
• Brian talks about two conventions that happened before he had a chance to edit this podcast (whoops)

It’s another episode of WhatTheCast for you to enjoy.

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In case you missed it, Stephen helped kick everyone out of the Dollhouse … it’s the Foreclosure episode of the Dollhouse Podcast (before it became the Milk Carton TV Podcast). Our listeners know Stephen has issues with the final episodes of Dollhouse, now he shares them with other fans on this special (and quite profane) episode.

We hope this keeps you going while Brian roams Germany on business.

Brian, Stephen & Crispy (pic from Flickr by Derek Deweese)

We talk about zombie walks, TV ratings, podcasting, drinking and hanging out at a con where none of work staff (shocking, I know). Along with the audio, check out pics from GMX courtesy of Brian & Derek.

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