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Podcasts - THE LEAGUE OF EXTREMELY ORDINARY GENTLEMEN: Volume 8, Issue 13: Nostalgia™

These days, nostalgia is big business. Hell, in Hollywood lately, it seems to be ALL the business, and we think that's not such a good thing. Much discussion on that issue, brand new trailer trending talks, a chance to get to know your spillios, and much more.

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94 Comments for THE LEAGUE OF EXTREMELY ORDINARY GENTLEMEN: V...

June 22, 2012 at 6:52 AM, said ...

So ok, im a life-long transformers fan, Ive grew-up with those, i still love em to death (hell, even My nickname came somewhat from the show) but even I cant deny the fact that the story in this cartoon is garbage, and if not for the Nostalgia factor, watching this cartoon these-days would be almost physically painful. And the only instances it got somewhat good, was the feature-film, and maybe one or two episodes that actually tried being a little more serious and dark.

As for the topic of Polish-Jokes, well Im a Pollack ;) So now you guys know that at least 2 polish spillios are listening to LEOG :D .
June 20, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Scott Smidlein said ...

I actually am looking forward to seeing how wreck-it Ralph turns out. Yeah it prob won't be perfect and it prob will hit a ton of video game clichés. I am hoping they can go a creative route with it and give Pixar some more pressure so they don't make a shithole movie like Cars 2 ever again.

Also love the point of how the world today is an issue of the onion 10 years ago... so freaking true. Today I saw an article someone has been stealing Reeses from a store for a month... $600 worth. WTF world?!

ps great show
June 19, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Haze-man said ...

I think sunset boulevard pretty much sums up how screenwriters are thought of in hollywood
June 19, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Julio Francisco Suarez Gonzalez said ...

CLU
June 19, 2012 at 5:13 AM, said ...

Why do you think the channel the HUB exists on tv where you have the cartoons of the 80's and 90's orginal and remade for newer audicence's.
June 19, 2012 at 4:53 AM, John Michaels said ...

Hey Robert, three things, and I say them in all respect.

1.) Learn how to spell, or use less typos, people will take you more seriously that way.

2.) Cyrus made it very clear that he was not defending child rapists. He believed that instances like that might not be as simple as some people make them out to be.

3.) I hope Sandusky is punished. There is no doubt in my mind that he is guilty based on the stuff I have seen and read on him.(and here in State College, PA that's a whole f^%ing lot) That said, I really don't know what to believe about the level of Penn State involvement in that case. I don't know enough about that. There are three sides to every story, Yours, Mine, and the Truth, and I feel like in this situation, we're not getting a lot of the latter from anyone. In the mob rule sweeping through this case, it seems like Penn State and State College in its many bodies and citizens as a moving whole aided Sandusky in his horrors. That doesn't make any sense at all to me based on what I do know. That is a possible (depending on who you are) negative side of the mob rule. It presents little need for a wider understanding of the overall case. This is my opinion, and for all I know, it could be wrong. I'm sorry to get political on here, this is just a subject that I feel strongly about. Thanks for your (very small but entertaining and informative) discussion on child abuse, Leon and Cyrus.
June 18, 2012 at 11:45 PM, said ...

Hey Cyrus, I would love to hear youe opinion on defending child rapists, if one of your family members got rape, by some guy like jerry sandusky. I know mob rule can be bad some times, but it get the job done.
June 18, 2012 at 7:02 PM, said ...

132:33 See, I have to disagree with Cyrus there. It's not the movie company's fault or Bay's fault that they had to put recognizable catch phrases into the movie, because if they didn't the fans would be pissed off and add it to their lists of "Why Bay ruined my childhood". Bay can't do anything original, or different, because the G-Whiners, which is a popular term for old school fans, would bitch and moan, and do god knows what to him. I mean, they hacked his computer when he was making the first one to see the concept art and threatened him to redo the design of Optimus Prime!

I didn't care for TMNT growing up, so I don't plan on seeing the movie, but the (so far it's a trilogy as of right now), TF movies are doing what the 80's commercials did years ago, and that's sell toys to children, and now, as they pointed out, to nostalgic adults. So why people are pissed at Bay, I don't know. It's all about the toys, and if you're still buying, then he didn't even touch your childhood the way people claim. Sad truth is, if the toys weren't popular, there would be no tv show. So when people say "Oh, they're just trying to sell things to stupid kids and etc" I just say "Then they're doing their jobs right".
June 18, 2012 at 7:00 PM, said ...

not sure saying wreck it ralph is like Roger Rabbit and Toy story that valid of a complaint. Cause that idea is pretty broad. Cause Toy stoy and Roger Rabit vastly differnt stories with differnt style..beside the idea of cameos. I mean the tone, the Jokes, the hook, the plot is all very differnt. Heck they dont even share the grass is greener trope,

Hell with that logic midnight in paris is the roger rabiit of golden age 1920's art and film
June 18, 2012 at 6:33 PM, said ...

In keeping with the nostalgia thing, I'd like present my goldmine of a movie pitch. Following in the footsteps of blockbuster movies based on popular children’s toys, I present, THE WEEBLES. In the near future a mysterious alien force descends upon the earth. Our only hope is the WEEBLES. A crack commando team genetically engineered to be incapable of falling down.
June 17, 2012 at 6:42 PM, said ...

Lol, great episode LEOG guys! But in all seriousness and not trying to be mean, the nostalgia pat should have been called "Cat on Nostalgia".
June 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Stephen Watkins said ...
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June 16, 2012 at 8:30 PM, said ...

I'll have you know that I am Polish and I listen to you guys religiously since 2010. Great show though. Keep it up.
June 16, 2012 at 7:55 PM, said ...

The RZA and GZA get their names from the supreme alphabet from the Nations Of Gods and Earths
June 16, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Catherine Burke said ...

Spike Ghost: "H.P. Lovecraft for Kids" is Inhumanoids.

Sgt. Lloyd: That's the exact image I had in my head, too!
June 16, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Stephen Cary said ...

"Ken wasn't gonna get the job done, c'mon." Laughed out loud while driving at that one. Thanks, Leon.
June 16, 2012 at 8:13 AM, said ...

Great Show Guys!!!!!!!!! I loved this one!!!!!

First of all, I agree with Cyrus about Mr. Tarantino (phonetically spelled). I think he is somewhere else. He was beyond me with Kill Bill and Death Proof. But, he is doing his thing.

He is a voice and he wants to be listened to. The problem is that I am not sure what he is saying. And my anger at him is the same anger at myself. And I should never put that on another person.

Otherwise you end up like Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive, violently masturbating to a memory of a feeling you once had.

--am
June 16, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Bryce Lloyd said ...

All I could think of when you guys mentioned turning into puppets was this..
June 16, 2012 at 7:32 AM, said ...

"Life in the Air Force in Missouri...." My real excuse for not being able to go to Spill-Con!

Someday I'll go! SOMEDAY!!
June 16, 2012 at 5:39 AM, said ...

Kids will buy anything. I am embarrassed to say that when I was little I got the hulk hands and would punch fucking everything. My walls, toys, little sister and my mom. Kids are dumb. P.S I love the retarded voices they made with the Toy Trucks.
June 16, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Kyle Hutslar said ...

I just want to get a word in edgewise here and say I wish I was at Spillcon! Hopefully next year I can make it. Maybe you guys at Spill can be nice enough to keep this running for another ten years so I can build up a sturdy enough income. Great episode anyhow!
June 16, 2012 at 5:27 AM, said ...
June 16, 2012 at 5:17 AM, said ...

Who was happy when Roosterteeth was mentioned but then you said AWWWWWWWWWWWW when you heard they weren't on the show. I listen to both Spill and Roosterteeth all the time. I love Red Vs. Blue.
June 16, 2012 at 5:08 AM, said ...

I am looking foward to "Wreck-it Ralph" and brave looks ok. I did not like "Chicken Little" but I did like "Meet The Robinsons" and "Bolt". I hope "Wreck-it Ralph" is good and not just a good concept with no substance.

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