Friends in Your Head and that's about it.

Every few weeks I'll check out Fatman on Batman because Smith takes forever to do episodes.

The whole point of Guardians of the Galaxy (the one the movies based on, there was another team that used the name before) was they took all these forgotten, weird and some outright stupid characters and brought them all together, reinventing them in this big space war against unstoppable giant bugs. It was really neat to see all these weird characters from different corners of the galaxy and Marvel's publishing history come together and given a new spin.

It's almost baffling it's getting a movie, not only because of how weird the characters are, but these aren't tried and true comic "classics" like Thor, Spider-man or even Iron Man who was at least well known to comic readers. The iteration they're making the film out of came about in 2008 and was eventually cancelled due to lack of readership, so as a fan of the books, the fact we're even getting a movie is a fever dream come true.

It would also probably help when Alfred was describing his fantasy early on, to not actually show it. I knew immediately when he was telling Bruce in the Batcave about it and then it cut to the cafe that this was going to be whole scene was going to be done again, but with Bruce actually there. If he just told me and didn't show me I probably would have forgotten it until it came back to pay off. May be just nitpicking, but that was something that stuck out to me immediately upon leaving the theater.

I'm pretty excited, though I am a bit biased, having been a fan of the comic. The fact that THIS of all their properties is getting a film is something I daily can't believe is actually happening.

I do agree a bit with Trey, about not feeling Star-Lord in the trailer, but I don't think they cast him for the "abs". The dude was pretty doughy when he was cast and "abbed up" for the role, so hopefully James Gunn saw something in him we didn't get to see in the trailer.

Ooga-chaka.

I was tempted to write a review up in the review forum but couldn't get past "You should seriously go see this movie". I went in expecting Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs but with Batman, to be surprisingly entertained by a movie that doesn't really have any right to exist - as with Cloudy - and got more than I ever expected. I can't even describe the movie beyond pure happiness and excitement at this point, to the point I need to see this movie a second time so I can gather myself and put into words why this movie is so fucking awesome.

In the same boat as you, but taking a quick drive-by through wikipedia none of this seems to have ever even remotely happened in an episode of the Simpsons.

Several complaints seem to be from completely imagined episodes of both shows.

Yeah, I was a bit confused on Brian's dismissal. Perhaps if Dorkman had lead with this quote?

The new archive version of 28 Days Later has an error at the end where Trey keeps repeating "Kay fair enough" over and over again for about 10 seconds before abruptly cutting to an extremely quiet end of "friends in your head.com" outro.

I dunno if this is an error from when the outro was slapped on or if it's something intentionally added to confuse the shit out of me.

Yeah, in all seriousness Hold Your Applause is really good. The only problem I foresee is that another podcast group already has the name. Dunno if they hold the trademark, but it'd probably not be the nicest thing to do, all things considered.